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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Page 92
... writing . In his books the vicious conventions of writing are all dropped . You have no board interposed between you ... written ; a book that , one would think , the English people would rise up in a mass to thank him for , by cordial ...
... writing . In his books the vicious conventions of writing are all dropped . You have no board interposed between you ... written ; a book that , one would think , the English people would rise up in a mass to thank him for , by cordial ...
Page 131
... written by a man who has hardly written any other . And Godiva is a parable which belongs to the same gospel . Locksley Hall and The Two Voices are meditative poems , which were slowly written to be slowly read . The Talking Oak ...
... written by a man who has hardly written any other . And Godiva is a parable which belongs to the same gospel . Locksley Hall and The Two Voices are meditative poems , which were slowly written to be slowly read . The Talking Oak ...
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... written the book , in some former life , so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience . * * Montaigne is the ... written to one sex only , and almost all were written in Latin WRITERS AND BOOKS 159 Montaigne.
... written the book , in some former life , so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience . * * Montaigne is the ... written to one sex only , and almost all were written in Latin WRITERS AND BOOKS 159 Montaigne.
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