EmersonHarvard University Press, 2004-09-30 - 416 psl. "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man," Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote--and in this book, the leading scholar of New England literary culture looks at the long shadow Emerson himself has cast, and at his role and significance as a truly American institution. On the occasion of Emerson's 200th birthday, Lawrence Buell revisits the life of the nation's first public intellectual and discovers how he became a "representative man." |
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... poetic spirit and a multifaceted curiosity laced with doubt, particularly about religion and about himself. These qualities were alternately reinforced and tested by his aunt, Mary Moody Emerson, a mercurial, idiosyncratically pietistic ...
... poetic and dramatic readings, and (by Emerson) Traits of the Times. 14 Emerson could and sometimes did lecture on all these other subjects too, except for Iceland, and he did the equivalent of even that when he wrote up his ...
... poet and Harvard professor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who married the daughter of the richest man in Boston; but Longfellow's opu34 lent Cambridge home made Emerson uncomfortable despite his being on the making of a public intellectual.
... poet. To be a poet was a youthful dream and a role he intermittently indulged. Scholar was his usual self-descriptor. Poet he would have liked to be; scholar he never doubted that he was. Emerson was remarkably consistent in his ...
... poet sometimes merge. To create,to create,is the proof of a divine presence, admonishes The American Scholar. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his (W 1: 57). In his next ...
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2 Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
3 Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
4 Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
5 Emerson as a Philosopher? | 199 |
Emerson and Abolition | 242 |
7 Emerson as AntiMentor | 288 |
Notes | 337 |
Acknowledgments | 383 |
Index | 385 |