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." |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 70
Page xxxiv
... English Literature : Introductory . " Disclaiming full knowledge of English literary history , Emerson in this essay sets forth a transcendental theory of literature that gives highest value to " the majestic ideas of God , of Justice ...
... English Literature : Introductory . " Disclaiming full knowledge of English literary history , Emerson in this essay sets forth a transcendental theory of literature that gives highest value to " the majestic ideas of God , of Justice ...
Page xxxv
... English - and American poems . The brief appraisals of Eng- lish poets are largely the judgments of earlier years . Poe , Whitman , Shelley , and Emerson are omitted from the anthology ; Bryant , Whittier , Longfellow , Holmes , Lowell ...
... English - and American poems . The brief appraisals of Eng- lish poets are largely the judgments of earlier years . Poe , Whitman , Shelley , and Emerson are omitted from the anthology ; Bryant , Whittier , Longfellow , Holmes , Lowell ...
Page 137
... English cannot interpret the German mind . German science com- prehends the English . The absence of the faculty in England is shown by the timidity which accumulates mountains of facts , as a bad general wants myriads of men and miles ...
... English cannot interpret the German mind . German science com- prehends the English . The absence of the faculty in England is shown by the timidity which accumulates mountains of facts , as a bad general wants myriads of men and miles ...
Contents
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | ix |
Beauty 1836 | 23 |
Beauty 1860 | 45 |
Copyright | |
28 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
American Literature American Renaissance artist Bacon beauty better Byron Carlyle character Chaucer Coleridge creative culture Dares Phrygius delight divine Edited England English English Traits epic essay experience expression F. O. Matthiessen fact feeling Forceythe Willson genius Goethe Harold Bloom Hawthorne heart heaven Heraclitus Homer human ideal ideas imagination insight inspiration intellect Jakob Böhme journal language lecture Literary Criticism lyric M. H. Abrams Milton mind modern moral nature never novel object organic Orphism painting passage perception person philosopher picture Plato Plutarch poems poet poetic poetry praise prose Ralph Waldo Emerson reader rhetoric rhyme romantic Scott seems sense sentiment Shakspeare soul speak speech spirit style Swedenborg symbol talent taste Tennyson theory things Thoreau thou thought tion tone Traits transcendental translation truth universal verse whilst Whitman wonderful words Wordsworth write