Lesson 5-Twelve Angry Men(Part One) T2 Poem About the poet: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)was born in Boston, where his father was a clergyman. While at Harvard, he began keeping journals -records of his thoughts-a practice he continued throughout his life. He later drew on the journals for materials for his essays and poetry. Emerson was concerned with many reform movements, among them the abolition of slavery. He is regarded as a leading American philosopher and writer. His influence on American literature resulted not so much from the quality of his own writing as from the guidance he provided for other writers such as Thoreau whitman and Emily Dickinson WBTLE The end of poemW B T L E Lesson 5—Twelve Angry Men (Part One) About the poet: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882) was born in Boston, where his father was a clergyman. While at Harvard, he began keeping journals—records of his thoughts—a practice he continued throughout his life. He later drew on the journals for materials for his essays and poetry. Emerson was concerned with many reform movements, among them the abolition of slavery. He is regarded as a leading American philosopher and writer. His influence on American literature resulted not so much from the quality of his own writing as from the guidance he provided for other writers such as Thoreau, Whitman, and Emily Dickinson. IV. Poem The end of Poem