A contemporary and friend of writers Nathaniel Hawthorne and Louisa May Alcott, which American poet introduced us to the phrase "the shot heard round the world"?

Emerson, a native of Concord, Massachusetts, wrote the poem "Concord Hymn" in 1873 to commemorate the Battle of Concord, one of two skirmishes that marked the start of the American Revolution in 1775. The poet's famous line comes at the end of the first stanza: By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flags to April’s breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

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