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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... poetry, epistemology, points of doctrine—animated on both sides. Mary Moody Emerson was an omnivorous autodidact whose overweening religious fervor did not quash but excited her restless intelligence. In a single letter she could range ...
Lawrence Buell. 19 tion of Homer, Russian poetry, a recent oration of Daniel Webster, Gibbon on the Roman empire, Mosheim's ecclesiastical history, renditions by Dryden and Gifford of Juvenal's Tenth Satire that she had just been reading ...
... 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 ...
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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 |