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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... 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 definition of the scholar's role , in his dozen or so essays on the subject ...
... scholar and poet sometimes merge . " To cre- ate , to create , is the proof of a divine presence , admon- ishes " The American Scholar . " " Whatever talents may be , if the man create not , the pure efflux of the Deity is not his ...
... scholar subordinate , but it is essential , " he insists ( W 1 : 59 ) . Overall he seems more anxious to warn scholars against acting hastily than to exhort them to act . ( " Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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