Emerson's Literary Criticism
Ralph Waldo Emerson has always fascinated students of criticism and of American literature and thought. Emerson& ’ s Literary Criticism supplies the continuing need for an anthology. This collection brings together Emerson& ’ s literary criticism from a wide variety of sources. Eric W. Carlson has culled both the major statements of Emerson's critical principles and many secondary observations that illuminate them. Here are more than sixty selections on thirty-five critical topics. Headnotes provide valuable background. Carlson relates Emerson& ’ s critical principles to his philosophy, social thought, and literary milieu, and also to biographical details. Intended for the student as well as the researcher, this book amply illustrates Alfred Kazin's contention that Ralph Waldo Emerson was "one of the shrewdest critics who ever lived."
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ing the evolution of Emerson ' s method as a philosopher , William B . Barton
concluded that “ Emerson , in fact , was among the first modern philosophers to
set forth the outlines of a thorough - going process philosophy of organism
Pythagoras : sixth century B . C . , Greek mathematician and philosopher .
Paracelsus : ( 1493 – 1541 ) , Swiss alchemist and physician . Agrippa : Heinrich
Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim ( 1468 – 1535 ) , German physicist interested
Carlyle : Stylist but Not Philosopher 1840 Carlyle shall make a statement of a fact
, shall draw a portrait , shall inlay nice shades of meaning , shall play , shall
insinuate , shall banter , shall paralyze with sarcasm , shall translate , shall sing a
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Editor Carlson gathered this selection of Emerson's literary criticism in 1979. The great poet here ruminates on "Art as Experience," "The Creative Process," "Writers and Books," and more. Read full review