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 118
... society , and taught to look for great talent and culture under a gray coat . But this is all . The limits of artificial society are never quite out of sight . The vicious conventions , which hem us in like prison walls and which the ...
... society , and taught to look for great talent and culture under a gray coat . But this is all . The limits of artificial society are never quite out of sight . The vicious conventions , which hem us in like prison walls and which the ...
Page 133
... society which we found nowhere else . It was founded on power to do what was neces- sary , each person finding it an indispensable qualification of mem- bership that he could do something useful , as in mechanics or agri- culture or ...
... society which we found nowhere else . It was founded on power to do what was neces- sary , each person finding it an indispensable qualification of mem- bership that he could do something useful , as in mechanics or agri- culture or ...
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... society ; -yet their genius failed them to find out the best head in the universe . Our poet's mask was impenetrable . You cannot see the mountain near . It took a century to make it suspected ; and not until two centuries had passed ...
... society ; -yet their genius failed them to find out the best head in the universe . Our poet's mask was impenetrable . You cannot see the mountain near . It took a century to make it suspected ; and not until two centuries had passed ...
Contents
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | ix |
Beauty 1836 | 23 |
Beauty 1860 | 45 |
Copyright | |
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