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 xxvi
... rhetoric of prose and verse are seen to have greatly extended the range of expression open to Thoreau , Melville , Whitman , and Emily Dickinson . A speaker of great eloquence , Emerson would have liked to teach rhetoric . " Why , " he ...
... rhetoric of prose and verse are seen to have greatly extended the range of expression open to Thoreau , Melville , Whitman , and Emily Dickinson . A speaker of great eloquence , Emerson would have liked to teach rhetoric . " Why , " he ...
Page 83
... rhetoric of a rattling oath in the mouth of truckmen and teamsters . How laconic and brisk it is by the side of a page of the North American Review . Cut these words and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive ; they walk and run ...
... rhetoric of a rattling oath in the mouth of truckmen and teamsters . How laconic and brisk it is by the side of a page of the North American Review . Cut these words and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive ; they walk and run ...
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... rhetoric . It means , using one word or image for another . It is a low idealism . Idealism regards the world as symbolic , and all these symbols or forms as fugitive and convertible expressions . The power of the poet is in controlling ...
... rhetoric . It means , using one word or image for another . It is a low idealism . Idealism regards the world as symbolic , and all these symbols or forms as fugitive and convertible expressions . The power of the poet is in controlling ...
Contents
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | ix |
Beauty 1836 | 23 |
Beauty 1860 | 45 |
Copyright | |
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