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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essay Preview: Ralph Waldo Emerson Report this essay Ralph Waldo Emerson “was truly one of our great geniuses” even though he may have a short biography (Hodgins 212). But as Emerson once said himself, “Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.” Emerson was also a major leader of “the philosophical movement of Transcendentalism”..