The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-03
OBITUARY. -
Death of Ralph aldo Emerson, tn.
American Poet and Essayist.

Death of Ralph HaIdo Emerson, the
American Poet and Essayist.
BesToN. April 27.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
died In Concord, Mass, at o'clock this
evening.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American poet and
essayist. was born in Boston in March, lSOD He
the first Church of that city He entered Har
ward College in 1917, and graduated in August,
1921. He does not appear 10 have held high
rank in MS class though the records show that he
twice received q B0wdoin prize fol dissertations,
and once BOylston prize for defamation. He
was also the poet 81 MS class on class day"
use of the library than is common among stu
dents, and was disiii iguished among MS class
mates for his knowledge of general literature. In
1926 he was appreciated to preach" by the Mid
dlesex Association of Ministers; but his health nj
this time failing, he spent tie winter in South
Carolina and Florida. In 1879 he was ordained as
colleague to Henry Ware, at the second Uuitar
ian Church of Boston. He belonged TO clerical
race. For eight generations, reck nj back to his
Concord, Mass. there had always been
on the paternal or the maternal
side. lie was the eighth in succession of this con-
secutive line OF ministers.
A small volume entitled Nature QSS6l an
OratiOn before the PM Beta Kappa Society, with
the title Of 1.-The American Scholar (IS57): an
address To the senior class of the Cambridge
Divinity School QSSS), and The Method o.
Naturer 0Sill, contaiuei the mot prominent De-
cuilarities OF his schene OF ldc Ism, and cy
their freshness aud depth of thought and com
pact beauty OF expression, allured many readers
in becoming disciples
IN 1S4o ne collected and published volume of
his poems The next year he visitei i gland,
delivered series of lectures before Union of
Mcchanics' Institute aud other soc eties In 1850
Essays OH Representative Men," a series of mas
terly mental portraits, with some of the features
0Ver-charged, was published In 1856 he pub
iisned "Engiish Trslts, In which he
seizes and emphasizes the characteristics Of the
English mind and people. and Ia 1850, "rhe Con-
duct OF Life" May Day and otner pieces (pOems)
appeared in 1867; Society aud solitude in 1870
AS a writer, hr Emerson was disd guished for
a singular union of poetic imaginations with
practical acuteness- HIS yisl3n TOOK u wide
sweep in TIE realms of the ideal, but was no less
firm and penetrating in the sphere Of facts The
omiliant transceudentalist evidently a man
not easy to be deceived in matters pertaining To
the ordinary course of human affairs With him.
however, wit vas not an end but a means, and
usGslly employed for the detecuon OF pretense
and imDOsture Mr.. Emersous style was in the
incest harmony with the character of his
thoughts. il was condensed almost 10 abruptness.
Fluency, however, was out Of the question
in astyle which CON bnes such snstere economy of
words with the determination 10 loaa every woId
with vital meaning. But the great Characteristic
of &r. EmersOn's intellect was tie perceptions
and sentiments of beauty. His Observation his
wit, his RIA on his imeginati n, his yie obeyed
the controlling sense OF oea ty. which was az the
heart OF his nature and ctigely avoided the
ugly aud the base. The last two or tnree years ne
has reclafned quietly ac mis- home in Concord.