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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... whole " so that the sentences " fall from him as unregarded parts of that terrible whole which he sees and which he means that you shall see . " But the flame must be modulated by " a certain regnant calmness " ( 93 ) , and the inner ...
... whole truth about Emersonian aesthetics , nor is " Circles " its best expres- sion , even of the will to pastless experimentation . Striking though it is , " Circles " threatens to undercut itself through the sheer predictability with ...
... whole parade , with its " diabolically cheerful lilt " as Bloom calls it ( " Some to see , some to be guessed , / They marched from east to west " ) . 27 In what follows , each has its moment and then gets yanked from the stage , with ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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