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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... human nature , affects us in the most lively and agreeable manner . The seed of a plant , -to what affecting anal- ogies in the nature of man is that little fruit made use of , in all discourse , up to the voice of Paul , who calls the ...
... human nature , affects us in the most lively and agreeable manner . The seed of a plant , -to what affecting anal- ogies in the nature of man is that little fruit made use of , in all discourse , up to the voice of Paul , who calls the ...
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... humanity of a whole age . " In the 1874 Preface to Parnassus , Emerson again paid tribute to Chaucer's vital humanity ... human kindness flows always in his veins . The hilarity of good sense joined with the best health and temper never ...
... humanity of a whole age . " In the 1874 Preface to Parnassus , Emerson again paid tribute to Chaucer's vital humanity ... human kindness flows always in his veins . The hilarity of good sense joined with the best health and temper never ...
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... human souls , who would not march in his troop ? He touches nothing that does not borrow health and longevity from his festal style . And now , how stands the account of man with this bard and benefactor , when , in solitude , shutting ...
... human souls , who would not march in his troop ? He touches nothing that does not borrow health and longevity from his festal style . And now , how stands the account of man with this bard and benefactor , when , in solitude , shutting ...
Contents
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | ix |
Beauty 1836 | 23 |
Beauty 1860 | 45 |
Copyright | |
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