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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... style became rich and flexible with the resources of a new rhetoric - in diction , metaphor , parable , aphorism , proverb , example , and maxim , in sentence style and in essay structure and form . Explic- it transitions , logical ...
... style became rich and flexible with the resources of a new rhetoric - in diction , metaphor , parable , aphorism , proverb , example , and maxim , in sentence style and in essay structure and form . Explic- it transitions , logical ...
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... style was praised for its “ noble idiomatic use of English , a perfect plain style from which he can at any time soar to a fine lyric delicacy or descend to the coarsest sarcasms without losing his firm footing . ” The poetic power of ...
... style was praised for its “ noble idiomatic use of English , a perfect plain style from which he can at any time soar to a fine lyric delicacy or descend to the coarsest sarcasms without losing his firm footing . ” The poetic power of ...
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... style . " With the salty New England idiom of Aunt Mary Moody ringing in his ears , along with frequent reading of Bacon , Montaigne , Shakespeare , and Carlyle , it is little wonder that he abandoned his conventional , ministerial style ...
... style . " With the salty New England idiom of Aunt Mary Moody ringing in his ears , along with frequent reading of Bacon , Montaigne , Shakespeare , and Carlyle , it is little wonder that he abandoned his conventional , ministerial style ...
Contents
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | ix |
Beauty 1836 | 23 |
Beauty 1860 | 45 |
Copyright | |
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