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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

  WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE =============================================================== William Shakespeare  (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English  playwright , poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's  national poet  and the " Bard  of  Avon " (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including  collaborations , consist of some  39 plays ,  154 sonnets , three long  narrative poems  and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays  have been translated  into every major  living language  and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted. Shakespeare was born and raised in  Stratford-upon-Avon , Warwicksh...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson  (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher,  abolitionist , and poet who led the  Transcendentalist   movement of the mid-19th century . He was seen as a champion of  individualism  and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and  conformity .  Friedrich Nietzsche  thought he was "the most gifted of the Americans," and  Walt Whitman  called Emerson his "master". Emerson gradually moved away from his contemporaries' religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, " Nature ". Following this work, he gave a speech entitled " The American Scholar ," in 1837, which  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.  considered to be America's "intellectual Declaration of Independenc...
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