What is Success? - Ralph Waldo Emerson (Powerful Life Poetry)

An essayist, poet, and popular philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson achieved worldwide fame as a lecturer and the author of such essays as “Self-Reliance,” “History,” and “The American Scholar.”

Emerson influenced generations of Americans, from his friend Henry David Thoreau to John Dewey, and in Europe, Friedrich Nietzsche, who showed a profound admiration for Emerson’s writing.