Emerson, Romanticism, and Intuitive Reason: The Transatlantic "light of All Our Day""Comparative study in transatlantic Romanticism that traces the links between German idealism, British Romanticism (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Carlyle), and American Transcendentalism. Focuses on Emerson's development and use of the concept of intuitive Reason, which became the intellectual and emotional foundation of American Transcendentalism"--Provided by publisher. |
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... Divinity Within : The Godlike Self and the Divinity School Address 321 10. Emerson among the Orphic Poets 355 PART IV . THE ART OF LOSING 11. Emersonian “ vii Contents.
... Divinity Within : The Godlike Self and the Divinity School Address 321 10. Emerson among the Orphic Poets 355 PART IV . THE ART OF LOSING 11. Emersonian “ vii Contents.
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... addresses to this mind a question it cannot answer , and each new fact tears it to pieces , and it is vanquished by the distracting variety " ( W9 : 212 ... Divinity School Address , among 10 EMERSON , ROMANTICISM , AND INTUITIVE REASON.
... addresses to this mind a question it cannot answer , and each new fact tears it to pieces , and it is vanquished by the distracting variety " ( W9 : 212 ... Divinity School Address , among 10 EMERSON , ROMANTICISM , AND INTUITIVE REASON.
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... Divinity School Address , among other Emersonian writ- ings ) “ which would be new to the competent student of European philos- ophy . " Yet the “ general English reader , ” encountering much that is extrava- gantly , even “ absurdly ...
... Divinity School Address , among other Emersonian writ- ings ) “ which would be new to the competent student of European philos- ophy . " Yet the “ general English reader , ” encountering much that is extrava- gantly , even “ absurdly ...
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... Divinity School Address ; and Emerson himself , who , in a late lecture , attributes the movement , in- formal as it was , to certain individuals reading with excitement Coleridge , Wordsworth , Goethe , and Carlyle . In this lecture ...
... Divinity School Address ; and Emerson himself , who , in a late lecture , attributes the movement , in- formal as it was , to certain individuals reading with excitement Coleridge , Wordsworth , Goethe , and Carlyle . In this lecture ...
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... Divinity School Address and the public outcry that greeted it are discussed as both a watershed between engagement in public issues and a decisive if temporary withdrawal as well as a dramatic exam- ple of the Emersonian emphasis on Man ...
... Divinity School Address and the public outcry that greeted it are discussed as both a watershed between engagement in public issues and a decisive if temporary withdrawal as well as a dramatic exam- ple of the Emersonian emphasis on Man ...
Contents
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Chapter 4 Emersons Discipleship | 118 |
Chapter 5 Powers and Pulsations | 153 |
Chapter 6 Intuition and Tuition | 184 |
Chapter 7 Passivity and Activity | 223 |
Chapter 10 Emerson among the Orphic Poets | 355 |
Chapter 11 Emersonian Optimism and The Stream of Tendency | 397 |
Chapter 12 Wordsworthian Hope | 425 |
Chapter 13 Mourning Becomes Morning | 447 |
Chapter 14 Wordsworths OdeWaldo and Threnody | 472 |
Appendix LAODAMIA AND DION | 512 |
Bibliography | 521 |
Index | 543 |
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