【正确答案】正确答案：Emerson is an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He is acclaimed as one of the major writers of the mid-19th century, one of the most stimulating American minds. His writing falls into two types: essay and poetry, and his fame came mainly from his essays. Among his best are Nature and The American Scholar and Self-Reliance. Nature has been called " the manifesto of American transcendentalism" ; The American Scholar has been regarded as "America"s Declaration of Intellectual Independence".