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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Ralph Waldo Emerson Eric W. Carlson. When I read Plutarch , or look at a Greek vase , I incline to accept the common ... looks at the order of his thoughts and the essential quality of his mind . Then the critic is poet . ' T is a ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Eric W. Carlson. When I read Plutarch , or look at a Greek vase , I incline to accept the common ... looks at the order of his thoughts and the essential quality of his mind . Then the critic is poet . ' T is a ...
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... look through his eyes . He learned as readily as other men breathe . Of all the men of this time , not one has seemed so much at home in it as he . He was not afraid to live . And in him this encyclopaedia of facts , which it has been ...
... look through his eyes . He learned as readily as other men breathe . Of all the men of this time , not one has seemed so much at home in it as he . He was not afraid to live . And in him this encyclopaedia of facts , which it has been ...
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... look down on him . They that looked into his eyes saw that they might look down the sky as easily . His muse and teaching was common sense , joyful , aggressive , irresistible . Not Latimer , nor Luther struck more telling blows against ...
... look down on him . They that looked into his eyes saw that they might look down the sky as easily . His muse and teaching was common sense , joyful , aggressive , irresistible . Not Latimer , nor Luther struck more telling blows against ...
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