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Emerson: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington How to instantly create aRalph Waldo Emerson is one of the best loved figures in nineteenth century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philosopher, since his death his reputation as a poet has grown as well. Known for challenging traditional thought and for his faith in the individual, Emerson was the chief spokesman for the Transcendentalist movement. His poems speak to his most passionately held belief: that external