Emerson's Literary CriticismRalph Waldo Emerson has always fascinated students of criticism and of American literature and thought. Emerson& ’ s Literary Criticism supplies the continuing need for an anthology. This collection brings together Emerson& ’ s literary criticism from a wide variety of sources. Eric W. Carlson has culled both the major statements of Emerson's critical principles and many secondary observations that illuminate them. Here are more than sixty selections on thirty-five critical topics. Headnotes provide valuable background. Carlson relates Emerson& ’ s critical principles to his philosophy, social thought, and literary milieu, and also to biographical details. Intended for the student as well as the researcher, this book amply illustrates Alfred Kazin's contention that Ralph Waldo Emerson was "one of the shrewdest critics who ever lived." |
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... Wordsworth the feeling of the Infinite , which so labors for expression in their different genius . But all his lines are arbitrary , not necessary . When we read poetry , the mind asks , -Was this verse one of twenty which the author ...
... Wordsworth the feeling of the Infinite , which so labors for expression in their different genius . But all his lines are arbitrary , not necessary . When we read poetry , the mind asks , -Was this verse one of twenty which the author ...
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... Wordsworth , Tennyson , Bulwer - Lytton , and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister . Wordsworth's simple rural life as a poet of the commonplace " Man and writer were not to be divided " -Emerson sees as a rebuke to the false lives and conventional ...
... Wordsworth , Tennyson , Bulwer - Lytton , and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister . Wordsworth's simple rural life as a poet of the commonplace " Man and writer were not to be divided " -Emerson sees as a rebuke to the false lives and conventional ...
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... Wordsworth has the merit of just moral perception , but not that of deft poetic execution . How would Milton curl ... Wordsworth's poetry in derision , and asked the roaring House of Commons , " what that meant , and whether a man should ...
... Wordsworth has the merit of just moral perception , but not that of deft poetic execution . How would Milton curl ... Wordsworth's poetry in derision , and asked the roaring House of Commons , " what that meant , and whether a man should ...
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