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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... speech and song , —but is used as if it meant descriptive : " Min- erva's graphic thread . " A Mr. Randall , M. C. , who appeared before the committee of the House of Commons on the subject of the American mode of closing a debate ...
... speech and song , —but is used as if it meant descriptive : " Min- erva's graphic thread . " A Mr. Randall , M. C. , who appeared before the committee of the House of Commons on the subject of the American mode of closing a debate ...
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... speech of man of breezes and waves and ripples , the form and lights of the sky , the color of clouds and leaves . As the world is round , and not square , —as bodies have shadows ; and sounds , echoes ; and meeting balls a rebound ; as ...
... speech of man of breezes and waves and ripples , the form and lights of the sky , the color of clouds and leaves . As the world is round , and not square , —as bodies have shadows ; and sounds , echoes ; and meeting balls a rebound ; as ...
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... speech , what is called a biblical style , marks the English . It is in Alfred and the Saxon Chronicle and in the Sagas of the Northmen . Latimer was homely . Hobbes was perfect in the " noble vulgar speech . ” Donne , Bunyan , Milton ...
... speech , what is called a biblical style , marks the English . It is in Alfred and the Saxon Chronicle and in the Sagas of the Northmen . Latimer was homely . Hobbes was perfect in the " noble vulgar speech . ” Donne , Bunyan , Milton ...
Contents
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | ix |
Beauty 1836 | 23 |
Beauty 1860 | 45 |
Copyright | |
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