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"The American Scholar" was a speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837 to the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was invited to speak as a result of his groundbreaking work Nature, published a year earlier in which he established a new way for America's historically-young society to look at the world. American culture was still heavily influenced by Europe 60 years after declaring independence, and Emerson was, for possibly the first time in the country's history, providing a roadmap on how to escape from underneath that veil and build a new, American cultural identity. [edit] ImportanceOliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. declared this speech to be America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence".[1] Building on the growing attention he was receiving from the essay Nature, this speech solidified Emerson's popularity and weight in America, a level of reverence he would hold through out the rest of his life. Phi Beta Kappa's literary quarterly was named after the speech. [edit] References
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