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 35
He was , as I remember , unable to tell directly what made him happy or unhappy
, but by wonderful indirections he could tell . He rose one day , according to his
habit , before the dawn , and saw the morning break , grand as the eternity out of
...
He was , as I remember , unable to tell directly what made him happy or unhappy
, but by wonderful indirections he could tell . He rose one day , according to his
habit , before the dawn , and saw the morning break , grand as the eternity out of
...
Page 40
... perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door , is an emblem of the
state of man . On the brink of the waters of life and truth , we are miserably dying .
The inaccessibleness of every thought but that we are in , is wonderful . What if
you ...
... perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door , is an emblem of the
state of man . On the brink of the waters of life and truth , we are miserably dying .
The inaccessibleness of every thought but that we are in , is wonderful . What if
you ...
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But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood , and
always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond ; until by and by
we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is , in ...
But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood , and
always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond ; until by and by
we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is , in ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Emerson's Literary Criticism Regents critics series Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaiss |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Editor | Eric W. Carlson |
| Publisher | University of Nebraska Press, 1979 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 27 Sep 2011 |
| ISBN | 0803214030, 9780803214033 |
| Length | 251 pages |
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