Education of the republic of uzbekistan termez state university foreign philology faculty department of english language and literature

1811 Father dies May 12 of stomach cancer.

1812 Enters Boston Public Latin School; begins writing poetry.

1817 Enters Harvard College.

1821 Graduates from Harvard College in August; begins teaching at his brother William's School for Young Ladies.

1824 Dedicates himself to religious study.

1825 Leaves the School for Young Ladies and enters Harvard Divinity School.

1826 Becomes licensed to preach; fearing tuberculosis, he travels to Charleston, South Carolina, and later to St. Augustine, Florida.

1829 Is ordained pastor of the Second Unitarian Church of Boston; marries Ellen Tucker in September,

1831 Nineteen-year-old Ellen dies February 8 of tuberculosis.

1832-33 Resigns from Second Church and travels in Europe; visits Carlyle, Mill, Coleridge, and Wordsworth.