Question: What 1837 poem first featured the phrase “shot heard round the world”?
Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson, a 19th-century American essayist, poet, and philosopher, coined the phrase “shot heard round the world” in his 1837 poem Concord Hymn, written for the dedication of a monument in Concord, Massachusetts, commemorating the April 19, 1775 battles of Lexington and Concord that sparked the American Revolutionary War.
