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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... Ideas " . Emerson's view , on the contrary , posits the kind of experience in which the intellect discovers reality ... Idea - ism " and positivist objectivism . After trac- ing the evolution of Emerson's method as a philosopher , xiv ...
... Ideas " . Emerson's view , on the contrary , posits the kind of experience in which the intellect discovers reality ... Idea - ism " and positivist objectivism . After trac- ing the evolution of Emerson's method as a philosopher , xiv ...
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... , Emerson describes Plato's philosophic ideas with such sympathy and cogency that his identification with them ( as he understands them ) is unmistakable . Plato's idea of the soul as pervasive throughout INTRODUCTION XV.
... , Emerson describes Plato's philosophic ideas with such sympathy and cogency that his identification with them ( as he understands them ) is unmistakable . Plato's idea of the soul as pervasive throughout INTRODUCTION XV.
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... Ideas or Forms were transferred to post- or Neo - Pla- tonic ideas in the mind of the artist - the Divine Idea beamed into the soul's mirror - psychological criticism began . A fourth orientation , the objective theory , saw the poem as ...
... Ideas or Forms were transferred to post- or Neo - Pla- tonic ideas in the mind of the artist - the Divine Idea beamed into the soul's mirror - psychological criticism began . A fourth orientation , the objective theory , saw the poem as ...
Contents
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | ix |
Beauty 1836 | 23 |
Beauty 1860 | 45 |
Copyright | |
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