Emerson's Fall: A New Interpretation of the Major Essays

American Scholar antinomianism apocalypse attempt axis axis-of-vision beauty become believe Blake chapter Christianity Circles Coleridge consciousness Criticism daimon death dislocation Divinity School Address doctrine early journal Emer Emerson records essay eternal ethical existence experience fable fact faith final Firkins Francis Bowen genius heaven hope human Hume Ibid Idealism imagination intellect Jesus Joel Porte John Jay Chapman journal passage kind language lecture literary man's means metaphor mind Montaigne moods moral nature Nature Emerson never objects Orphic chants Orphic poet paragraph philosophy poem poetic poetry principle problem Quentin Anderson Ralph Waldo Emerson reader reading reality Reason religion remark revelation seems Self-Reliance sense sentences skepticism society soul spirit suggests Swedenborg symbol theory things thou thought tion traditional Transcendentalist transparent Troilus and Criseyde true truth ture Unitarian University Press vision voice Whicher wisdom words Wordsworth writes Yvor Winters