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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... 3 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. A. PL MILTON Paradise Lost. Edited by Alastair Fowler. Longman Annotated Poets. London: Longman, 1968. Emerson, Romanticism, and Intuitive A Reason Prologue “ Every author Abbreviations xv.
... 3 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. A. PL MILTON Paradise Lost. Edited by Alastair Fowler. Longman Annotated Poets. London: Longman, 1968. Emerson, Romanticism, and Intuitive A Reason Prologue “ Every author Abbreviations xv.
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... Paradise Lost , of the Great Chain of Being , perhaps the fullest exposition in English lit- erature of that medieval and Renaissance idea , is indispensable to under- standing the principal Coleridgean distinction inherited by ...
... Paradise Lost , of the Great Chain of Being , perhaps the fullest exposition in English lit- erature of that medieval and Renaissance idea , is indispensable to under- standing the principal Coleridgean distinction inherited by ...
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... Paradise Lost in which the archangel Raphael distinguishes Reason from understanding and discursive from intuitive Reason . Coleridge's alteration of Kant in the light of the Miltonic passage defines much of the intellectual and vision ...
... Paradise Lost in which the archangel Raphael distinguishes Reason from understanding and discursive from intuitive Reason . Coleridge's alteration of Kant in the light of the Miltonic passage defines much of the intellectual and vision ...
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... Paradise Lost , the Romantics and Emerson do not forget that the archangel Michael promises Adam , in the final book of Milton's epic , a compensating “ paradise within thee , happier far ” than the Eden Adam and Eve lost by sinning and ...
... Paradise Lost , the Romantics and Emerson do not forget that the archangel Michael promises Adam , in the final book of Milton's epic , a compensating “ paradise within thee , happier far ” than the Eden Adam and Eve lost by sinning and ...
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... Paradise Lost . Since those lines ( 5 : 469–90 ) are also at the heart of Emerson's legacy from Coleridge , I will end this Introduction , which I have already “ permitted to stretch out its sloven length ” beyond decent limits , and ...
... Paradise Lost . Since those lines ( 5 : 469–90 ) are also at the heart of Emerson's legacy from Coleridge , I will end this Introduction , which I have already “ permitted to stretch out its sloven length ” beyond decent limits , 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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