Question:  An American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century wrote what  An American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century wrote Essays: Second Series in what year?
Sentence (from "Ralph Waldo Emerson"): He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.
Relevant evidence: No