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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... Nature and above it , -looking on Nature now as evil , —the world was a mere stage and school , a snare , and the powers that ruled here were devils , hostile to the soul ; and now , lastly , — 3. The Modern : when the too idealistic ...
... Nature and above it , -looking on Nature now as evil , —the world was a mere stage and school , a snare , and the powers that ruled here were devils , hostile to the soul ; and now , lastly , — 3. The Modern : when the too idealistic ...
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... Nature work through the will of a man filled with the beauty of her first works . The world thus exists to the soul ... nature is not ultimate . It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty , and is not alone a solid and satisfactory ...
... Nature work through the will of a man filled with the beauty of her first works . The world thus exists to the soul ... nature is not ultimate . It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty , and is not alone a solid and satisfactory ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Eric W. Carlson. Language is a third use which Nature subserves to man . Nature is the vehicle of thought , and in a simple , double , and three - fold degree . 1. Words are signs of natural facts . 2. Particular natural ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Eric W. Carlson. Language is a third use which Nature subserves to man . Nature is the vehicle of thought , and in a simple , double , and three - fold degree . 1. Words are signs of natural facts . 2. Particular natural ...
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