EmersonHarvard University Press, 2003-05-25 - 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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... ideal . 19 One of Emerson's first reactions to Fuller's death had been to idealize her and his relation to her . " I have lost in her my audi- ence , " he lamented meaning not " She listened while I talked " but " She was my ideal ...
... ideal . His essay on Love and his poem Initial , Daemonic , and Celestial Love imagine the be- loved as a transitional stage in lifting one into a state where all form / In one only form dissolves " ( CPT 87 ) . What is more ...
... ideal seems also to have had intrinsic appeal . The transformation of a slave into a man by dint of personal force and resourcefulness was the pivot point of the Narrative of Frederick Douglass , whom Emerson names in his journal as ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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