Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Margaret Fuller is the author of Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience. Her work focuses on American literature and themes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher, essayist, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid-1800s. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendental...