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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... things ugly , the poet , who re - attaches things to nature and the Whole , -re - attaching even artificial things and violation of nature , to nature , by a deeper insight , -disposes very easily of the most dis- agreeable facts ...
... things ugly , the poet , who re - attaches things to nature and the Whole , -re - attaching even artificial things and violation of nature , to nature , by a deeper insight , -disposes very easily of the most dis- agreeable facts ...
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... things sometimes after their appearance , sometimes after their essence , and giving to every one its own name and not another's , thereby rejoicing the intellect , which delights in detachment or boundary . The poets made all the words ...
... things sometimes after their appearance , sometimes after their essence , and giving to every one its own name and not another's , thereby rejoicing the intellect , which delights in detachment or boundary . The poets made all the words ...
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... things into higher organic forms is their change into melodies . Over everything stands its daemon or soul , and , as the form of the thing is reflected by the eye , so the soul of the thing is reflected by a melody . The sea , the ...
... things into higher organic forms is their change into melodies . Over everything stands its daemon or soul , and , as the form of the thing is reflected by the eye , so the soul of the thing is reflected by a melody . The sea , the ...
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