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From: The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Morris presents an overview of Emerson's poetical works.] "I am not the man you take me for." Consideration of Emerson's writings without significant emphasis on his verse...
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From: Harvard Magazine[In this excerpt from an article appearing in the magazine associated with Emerson's alma mater, Harvard University, the anonymous critic commends Emerson as an intellectual poet whose original verse derives its...
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From: Some Aspects of Modern Poetry, Hodder and Stoughton[Noyes was a prolific, twentieth-century, British poet and the author of books about Tennyson and Voltaire. In the following excerpt, Noyes compares Emerson to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Edgar Allan Poe with a focus...
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From: Ralph Waldo Emerson / John Lothrop Motley: Two Memoirs[Holmes, a contemporary of Emerson's, was a famous medical doctor and fellow writer. In the following excerpt, Holmes discusses Emerson's poetry by comparing Emerson to the great writers throughout history, ranking...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Prose (Vol. 40, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis essay emphasizes the importance of Emerson's poetry. It close-reads selected poems and puts them into the contexts of Emerson's prose and of what Morris has termed a "politically ethical aesthetic." **********...
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From:Journal of Romance Studies (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed'Poetry was all written before time was,' Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in 1844 in his essay 'The Poet'. 'Whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music', he went on to...
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From: Emerson's Fall: A New Interpretation of the Major EssaysTo learn how to achieve this double abandonment we must turn to the best known of Emerson's essays, "Self-Reliance." If "Circles" was an attempt to discern the general laws governing human behavior, "Self Reliance" is an...
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From: Emerson: Poet and Thinker[In this excerpt Cary, a professional journalist-biographer, praises Emerson's poetry, finding it equal to William Wordsworth's in its “moral purpose.” To Cary, Emerson epitomizes America's mid-nineteenth century call...
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From:Nonfiction Classics for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Nonfiction Works (Vol. 3. )Frequent references to historical figures and famous contemporaries are a hallmark of Emerson's essays, and the technique is prominent in "Self-Reliance." Emerson mentions scores of well-known men from a wide range of...
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From: Emerson: And Other EssaysIf a man will once plant himself firmly on the proposition that he is the universe, that every emotion or expression of his mind is correlated in some way to phenomena in the external world, and that he shall say how...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Prose (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDespite recent increased interest in the politics of the spoken word, the history of the English lecture platform is still dominated by interpretations derived from the rather different experience of America. This...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Prose (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAlthough Ralph Waldo Emerson was and remains one of America's most important thinkers, no complete descriptive listing of contemporary portraits of him has yet appeared. Among the problems facing anyone wishing to...
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From:ATQ: 19th century American literature and culture (Vol. 21, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedRalph Waldo Emerson lived and wrote some of his most famous lectures and essays during an intense period of upheaval, both at home and abroad, in which a previously unimaginable diversity of bodies sought legally...
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From:ATQ: 19th century American literature and culture (Vol. 14, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn his essay, "Reading Transcendental Texts Religiously," Kevin Van Anglen divides students of Emerson (and of Transcendentalism in general) into two "currents" or camps. At Van Anglen's left hand are those who "give a...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 11. )In 1846, Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Nature" elucidated the optimistic promise of American individualism. Emerson describes how the wilderness--"these plantations of God"--liberate the human spirit. He writes, "Standing...
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From: Westminster Review[(essay date 1840) In the following excerpted review from an English periodical, Milnes provides a trans-Atlantic perspective on Emerson’s contemporary reception. The idealism and pantheism of the Transcendentalists are...
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From: Reading Under the Sign of Nature: New Essays in Ecocriticism[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Legler examines the ways in which such writers as Dillard, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau explore nature in their works.] In her Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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From: Twentieth Century Literature[(essay date 1984) In the following essay, Butler remarks on the role of movement and travel in U.S.A. and in American literature in general, positing a “search for pure motion” as part of the national character. In...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Ralph Waldo Emerson was the most distinguished of the New England Transcendentalists and one of the most brilliant American poets and thinkers of the 19th century. Although Transcendentalism as a mode of Romantic thought...
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From: The Literary WorldIn the regions we call Nature, towering beyond all measurement, with infinite spread, infinite depth and height—in those vast regions, including Man, socially and historically, with his moral-emotional influences—how...