LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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He was sick
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His father died
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Wife died
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Was writing a book
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Detailed explanation-1: -HE SUFFERED FROM MEMORY PROBLEMS LATE IN LIFE. In the early 1870s, Emerson began forgetting things. Given his symptoms, most historians think Emerson suffered from Alzheimer’s, aphasia, or dementia. Although he had difficulty recalling certain words, he continued to lecture until a few years before his death.
Detailed explanation-2: -The result of Emerson’s attack was to ban him from Harvard for more than 30 years, and only when he became famous and known as the conscience of the nation was he invited back and finally made an Overseer of the university.
Detailed explanation-3: -In his lifetime, Ralph Waldo Emerson became the most widely known man of letters in America, establishing himself as a prolific poet, essayist, popular lecturer, and an advocate of social reforms who was nevertheless suspicious of reform and reformers.