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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... symbol for its predetermined , static meaning , in order to arouse a stock response or to illustrate a moral lesson . Only one of famous emblem anthologies - Francis Quarles's Emblems ( 1635 ) —is cited by Emerson , and then as an ...
... symbol for its predetermined , static meaning , in order to arouse a stock response or to illustrate a moral lesson . Only one of famous emblem anthologies - Francis Quarles's Emblems ( 1635 ) —is cited by Emerson , and then as an ...
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... symbols through which it is named ; yet they cannot originally use them . We are symbols and inhabit symbols ... symbol.42 As the eyes of Lyncaeus13 were said to see through the earth , so the poet turns the world to glass , and ...
... symbols through which it is named ; yet they cannot originally use them . We are symbols and inhabit symbols ... symbol.42 As the eyes of Lyncaeus13 were said to see through the earth , so the poet turns the world to glass , and ...
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... symbol for an universal one . The morn- ing - redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen , 56 and comes to stand to him for truth and faith ; and , he believes , should stand for the same realities to every ...
... symbol for an universal one . The morn- ing - redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen , 56 and comes to stand to him for truth and faith ; and , he believes , should stand for the same realities to every ...
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