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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... ideal . Thus is art vilified ; the name conveys to the mind its secondary and bad senses ; it stands in the ... ideal before they eat and drink ; to serve the ideal in eating and drinking , in drawing the breath , and 22 EMERSON'S ...
... ideal . Thus is art vilified ; the name conveys to the mind its secondary and bad senses ; it stands in the ... ideal before they eat and drink ; to serve the ideal in eating and drinking , in drawing the breath , and 22 EMERSON'S ...
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... ideal . And this is the reward ; that the ideal shall be real to thee , and the impressions of the actual world shall fall like summer rain , copious , but not troublesome to thy invulnerable essence . Thou shalt have the whole land for ...
... ideal . And this is the reward ; that the ideal shall be real to thee , and the impressions of the actual world shall fall like summer rain , copious , but not troublesome to thy invulnerable essence . Thou shalt have the whole land for ...
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... ideal is truer than the actual . That is ephemeral , but this changes not . Moreover , because Nature is moral , that mind only can see , in which the same order entirely obtains . An interchangeable Truth , Beauty and Goodness , each ...
... ideal is truer than the actual . That is ephemeral , but this changes not . Moreover , because Nature is moral , that mind only can see , in which the same order entirely obtains . An interchangeable Truth , Beauty and Goodness , each ...
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