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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... Universal or Sublime in human experience . Emerson , of course , was not alone in believing that the highest values and truths transcend time , history , nationality , and race . Richard Hil- dreth in 1829 expressed the view that great ...
... Universal or Sublime in human experience . Emerson , of course , was not alone in believing that the highest values and truths transcend time , history , nationality , and race . Richard Hil- dreth in 1829 expressed the view that great ...
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... universal truth and stimulate the appreciator to a sense of the " universal relation , " the dynamic flow of life . Art and science should integrate beauty with use through " love . " Indeed , the art of living itself is as truly a high ...
... universal truth and stimulate the appreciator to a sense of the " universal relation , " the dynamic flow of life . Art and science should integrate beauty with use through " love . " Indeed , the art of living itself is as truly a high ...
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... universal receiving " and " universal giving . " Thus , because truth is ever present in the world , the simple lover of truth will not trouble himself with the question of authorship . Copernicus , Jesus , Jefferson , Homer , and ...
... universal receiving " and " universal giving . " Thus , because truth is ever present in the world , the simple lover of truth will not trouble himself with the question of authorship . Copernicus , Jesus , Jefferson , Homer , and ...
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