Known as the “Sage of Concord”, what American Transcendentalist owned the land where Henry David Thoreau built his cabin near Walden Pond in Massachusetts?
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Herman Melville
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Answer
The correct answer is D) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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