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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... draws my ear and heart whilst I listen , as much as an epic has done before . A dog , drawn by a master , or a litter ... draw any thing ? and then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street , with moving ...
... draws my ear and heart whilst I listen , as much as an epic has done before . A dog , drawn by a master , or a litter ... draw any thing ? and then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street , with moving ...
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... drawing or heard any conversation on the subject , nor can himself draw with correctness a single feature . A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly , long before they have any science on the subject , and a beautiful face sets twenty ...
... drawing or heard any conversation on the subject , nor can himself draw with correctness a single feature . A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly , long before they have any science on the subject , and a beautiful face sets twenty ...
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... draw some addition of dignity and grace from the fair ideals with which the imagination of a novelist has filled the heads of the most imitative class . We are not very well versed in these books , yet we have read Mr. Bulwer enough to ...
... draw some addition of dignity and grace from the fair ideals with which the imagination of a novelist has filled the heads of the most imitative class . We are not very well versed in these books , yet we have read Mr. Bulwer enough to ...
Contents
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | ix |
Beauty 1836 | 23 |
Beauty 1860 | 45 |
Copyright | |
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