The Liberating Gods: Emerson on Poets and PoetryUniversity of Miami Press, 1971 - 128 pages |
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... seems hardly possible in our hasty , facile America . " 1 Then , in that essay he declared that he was not " wise enough " to be a critic ( Works , III , 38 ) .2 Several twentieth - century commentators have refused to accept Emerson's ...
... seems hardly possible in our hasty , facile America . " 1 Then , in that essay he declared that he was not " wise enough " to be a critic ( Works , III , 38 ) .2 Several twentieth - century commentators have refused to accept Emerson's ...
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... seems higher than the others , namely , creation , or ideas taking forms of their own , -when the poet invents the fable , and invents the lan- guage which his heroes speak ( Works , VIII , 38–39 ) . If the exact words and symbols are ...
... seems higher than the others , namely , creation , or ideas taking forms of their own , -when the poet invents the fable , and invents the lan- guage which his heroes speak ( Works , VIII , 38–39 ) . If the exact words and symbols are ...
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... seems a Mira- beau of a man , with such insight & equal expression , but hurt hard by life & too animal experience . But perhaps you have not read the American Poem ? ( Letters , IV , 531 [ September 26 , 1855 ] ) . During the two ...
... seems a Mira- beau of a man , with such insight & equal expression , but hurt hard by life & too animal experience . But perhaps you have not read the American Poem ? ( Letters , IV , 531 [ September 26 , 1855 ] ) . During the two ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
Two The Function of the Poet | 31 |
THREE The Poets Use of Subject Matter | 43 |
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