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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... Words are signs of natural facts . 2. Particular natural facts are symbols of particular spiritual facts . 3. Nature is the symbol of spirit . 1. Words are signs of natural facts . The use of natural history is to give us aid in ...
... Words are signs of natural facts . 2. Particular natural facts are symbols of particular spiritual facts . 3. Nature is the symbol of spirit . 1. Words are signs of natural facts . The use of natural history is to give us aid in ...
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... words are as costly and admirable to Homer as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon . The poet does not wait for ... Words and deeds are quite indifferent modes of the divine energy . Words are also actions , and actions are a kind of ...
... words are as costly and admirable to Homer as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon . The poet does not wait for ... Words and deeds are quite indifferent modes of the divine energy . Words are also actions , and actions are a kind of ...
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... words , " the way of a mind with a 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 ...
... words , " the way of a mind with a 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 ...
Contents
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | ix |
Beauty 1836 | 23 |
Beauty 1860 | 45 |
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