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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... Harold Bloom and his mentor, M. H. Abrams—among many other ac- complishments, our indispensable guide to the radiating Miltonic com- plexities of Wordsworth's “Prospectus” to The Recluse, one of Emerson's favorite poems. A half-dozen ...
... Harold Bloom and his mentor, M. H. Abrams—among many other ac- complishments, our indispensable guide to the radiating Miltonic com- plexities of Wordsworth's “Prospectus” to The Recluse, one of Emerson's favorite poems. A half-dozen ...
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... Harold Bloom . My last ( and my first ) acknowledgment is to my mother , to whose mem- ory this book is dedicated . In the midst of the almost constant pain of her final years , she never ceased to encourage me . She had a particular ...
... Harold Bloom . My last ( and my first ) acknowledgment is to my mother , to whose mem- ory this book is dedicated . In the midst of the almost constant pain of her final years , she never ceased to encourage me . She had a particular ...
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... Harold Bloom and Paul Kane . New York : Library of America , 1994 . The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson . Edited by Albert J. von Frank et al . 4 vols . Columbia : University of Missouri Press , 1989-1992 . The Early Lectures of ...
... Harold Bloom and Paul Kane . New York : Library of America , 1994 . The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson . Edited by Albert J. von Frank et al . 4 vols . Columbia : University of Missouri Press , 1989-1992 . The Early Lectures of ...
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... HAROLD BLOOM, Agon:Towards a Theory of Revisionism A Coleridge meant more to Emerson than a mere transmitter of Kantian metaphysics. Coleridge felt that he had a system of philosophy of his own to present, and we are almost led to think ...
... HAROLD BLOOM, Agon:Towards a Theory of Revisionism A Coleridge meant more to Emerson than a mere transmitter of Kantian metaphysics. Coleridge felt that he had a system of philosophy of his own to present, and we are almost led to think ...
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... Harold Bloom . Bloom is , of course , fully aware of Emerson's affiliation with the British High Romantics , whom he readily concedes were Emerson's imme- diate precursors . Indeed , he registers , in The Western Canon : The Books and ...
... Harold Bloom . Bloom is , of course , fully aware of Emerson's affiliation with the British High Romantics , whom he readily concedes were Emerson's imme- diate precursors . Indeed , he registers , in The Western Canon : The Books and ...
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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