【美国人物志】拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生(2/12)

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拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生，美国思想家，诗人。1836年出版处女作《论自然》。他文学上的贡献主要在散文和诗歌上。
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MassachusettsRalph Waldo Emerson's life was not as exciting as the lives of some other American writers -- Herman Melville, Mark Twain or Ernest Hemingway. Emerson traveled to Europe several times. And he made speeches at a number of places in the United States. But, except for those trips, he lived all his life in the small town of Concord, Massachusetts. He once said that the shortest books are those about the lives of people with great minds. Emerson was not speaking about himself. Yet his own life proves the thought.