US 1940 Author Ralph Waldo Emerson 3c. Scott. 861


US 1940 Author Ralph Waldo Emerson 3c. Scott. 861


Series: Famous Americans Issue - Authors

Issued date: 05-02-1940 (dd/mm/yyyy)
Face value: 3c.

Emission: Commemorative
Watermark: No Watermark

Catalogue No:-
Scott (USA): 861
Stanley Gibbons (UK): 858
Michel (Germany): 457
Yvert et Tellier (France): 415

Dimensions (height x width):
29mm x 26mm

Printer: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Print Method: Rotary press

Stamp Colors: Bright red violet
Perforation: Perf 10½ x 11

Themes: Author, Writer, Literature, Feather, Famous People

Total print: 53,260,270 (estimate)

Description:- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), 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 a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and his ideology was disseminated through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.

Emerson gradually moved away from the 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 Independence."
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson