The Poet

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. . . for the poet is representative. He stands among partial men for the complete man and apprises us not of his wealth but of the common-wealth.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Ralph Waldo Emerson The Poet</span></p><p> </p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Poet written by Ralph Waldon Emerson between 1841 and 1843 is an essay in which Emerson argues for the United States when it was a relatively young nation to establish a position of national poet to write about the country's virtues and vices. It reflects the way that Emerson as a leader of the American Transcendentalist movement championed individualism.</span></p>