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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... speak to broader publics . Such motives had propelled Emerson from the minis- try . He did not want to speak to members only . Starting in the mid - 1830s , Emerson preferred to call himself either " scholar " or " poet . " To be a ...
... speak of America , " Wilson explains , he means " not today " but the inexorable future when " our true civilization " will begin . This process he compares to the formation of Europe in prime- val times a hint at the desire to energize ...
... speak with respect of all persons , Emerson writes in a mind - bogglingly extravagant passage in " Nominalist and Realist , " but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake , and preserve the due decorum . They melt so fast into each ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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