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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... truth . Goethe was impelled by a devotion to experiential truth : " His is not even the devotion to pure truth ; but to truth for the sake of culture . He has no aims less large than the conquest of universal nature , of universal truth ...
... truth . Goethe was impelled by a devotion to experiential truth : " His is not even the devotion to pure truth ; but to truth for the sake of culture . He has no aims less large than the conquest of universal nature , of universal truth ...
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... truth and you shall know why you believe . Each mind has its own method . A true man never acquires after college rules . What you have aggregated in a natural manner surprises and delights when it is produced . For we cannot oversee ...
... truth and you shall know why you believe . Each mind has its own method . A true man never acquires after college rules . What you have aggregated in a natural manner surprises and delights when it is produced . For we cannot oversee ...
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... truth , and forego all things for that , and choose defeat and pain , so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented . God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose . Take which you please , -you can never have both ...
... truth , and forego all things for that , and choose defeat and pain , so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented . God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose . Take which you please , -you can never have both ...
Contents
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | ix |
Beauty 1836 | 23 |
Beauty 1860 | 45 |
Copyright | |
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