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. unmistakable . Plato's idea of the soul as pervasive throughout nature leads Emerson to list a series of interpenetrative polarities and to recognize Plato as the " balanced soul " who perceived and ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Eric W. Carlson. unmistakable . Plato's idea of the soul as pervasive throughout nature leads Emerson to list a series of interpenetrative polarities and to recognize Plato as the " balanced soul " who perceived and ...
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... soul , the body form doth take , For soul is form , and doth the body make . " 32 Here we find ourselves suddenly not in a critical speculation but in a holy place , and should go very warily and reverently . We stand before the secret ...
... soul , the body form doth take , For soul is form , and doth the body make . " 32 Here we find ourselves suddenly not in a critical speculation but in a holy place , and should go very warily and reverently . We stand before the secret ...
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... soul out of which they came ) which carry them fast and far , and infix them irrecover- ably into the hearts of men . These wings are the beauty of the poet's soul . The songs , thus flying immortal from their mortal parent , are ...
... soul out of which they came ) which carry them fast and far , and infix them irrecover- ably into the hearts of men . These wings are the beauty of the poet's soul . The songs , thus flying immortal from their mortal parent , are ...
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