ith Carlyle marked the beginning of a lifelong friendship. After nearly a year in Europe Emerson returned to the United States. In 1834 he moved to Concord,Massachusetts, and became active as A lecturer in Boston.Emerson’s marriage with Ellen Tucker, and her later death formed the basis of his poem “Give all to Love”. He was hurt greatly by her death and all his later writings showed her effect on him.Emerson’s style was influenced by English romanticism, neoplatonism, and Hindu schools of thought. He was known as the father of transcendentalism. Emerson describes transcendentalism as idealism over materialism. One of his major accomplishments was in exposing the world to Walt Whitman’s poetry Emerson has been accredited with inventing the American Religion In the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his 1842 lecture The Transcendentalist: "The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of the human mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspiration, and in ecstasy. He wishes that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself to the end, in all possible applications to the state of man, without the admission of anything unspiritual; that is, Anything positive, dogmatic, personal. Thus, the spiritual measure of inspiration is the depth of the thought, and never, who said it? And so he resists all attempts to palm other rules and measures on the spirit than its own...."It is well known to most of my audience, that the Idealism of the present day acquired the name of Transcendental, from the use of That term by Immanuel Kant, of Konigsberg, who replied to the skeptical philosophy of Locke, which insisted that there was nothing in the intellect which was not previously in the experience of the senses, by showing that there was a very important class of ideas, or imperative forms, which did not c...
