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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... seems to lie on the confines of commodity and beauty . To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company , nature is medicinal and restores their tone . The tradesman , the attorney comes out of the din and craft ...
... seems to lie on the confines of commodity and beauty . To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company , nature is medicinal and restores their tone . The tradesman , the attorney comes out of the din and craft ...
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... seems worth doing but the laying out of gardens . I should think fire the best thing in the world , if I were not acquainted with air , and water , and earth . For it is the right and property of all natural objects , of all genuine ...
... seems worth doing but the laying out of gardens . I should think fire the best thing in the world , if I were not acquainted with air , and water , and earth . For it is the right and property of all natural objects , of all genuine ...
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... seems something the less to reside , and he turns to these silent beautiful with the more inclination and respect . The ancient sentence said , Let us be silent , for so are the gods.1 Silence is a solvent that destroys personality ...
... seems something the less to reside , and he turns to these silent beautiful with the more inclination and respect . The ancient sentence said , Let us be silent , for so are the gods.1 Silence is a solvent that destroys personality ...
Contents
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | ix |
Beauty 1836 | 23 |
Beauty 1860 | 45 |
Copyright | |
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