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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... effect.26 Too feeble fall the impres- sions of nature on us to make us artists . Every touch should thrill . Every man should be so much an artist that he could report in conversation what had befallen him . Yet , in our experience ...
... effect.26 Too feeble fall the impres- sions of nature on us to make us artists . Every touch should thrill . Every man should be so much an artist that he could report in conversation what had befallen him . Yet , in our experience ...
Page 47
... effect on Virginia Water by George IV . , and men hired to stand in fitting costumes at a penny an hour ! What a difference in effect between a battalion of troops marching to action , and one of our independent companies on a holiday ...
... effect on Virginia Water by George IV . , and men hired to stand in fitting costumes at a penny an hour ! What a difference in effect between a battalion of troops marching to action , and one of our independent companies on a holiday ...
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... effect . He was knowing ; he was brave ; he was clean from all narrow- ness ; he has a perfect propriety and taste , —a quality by no means common to the German writers . Nay , since the earth as we said had become a reading - room ...
... effect . He was knowing ; he was brave ; he was clean from all narrow- ness ; he has a perfect propriety and taste , —a quality by no means common to the German writers . Nay , since the earth as we said had become a reading - room ...
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