Emerson's Literary Criticism

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U of Nebraska Press, 01/01/1995 - 252 páginas
"Carlson has performed a valuable service in publishing these important critical statements in one convenient, thoroughly documented sourcebook. Worthwhile for all students of American literature."-Choice. 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." Eric W. Carlson is professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut and editor of three Edgar Allan Poe anthologies as well as coeditor, with J. Lasley Dameron, of Emerson's Relevance Today: A Symposium.
 

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Beauty 1836
23
Intellect
59
Bacchus
70
Diction and Style
81
The Craft of Poetry
96
Emerging Critical Concepts
103
The Novel of Character vs
121
General Essays
127
Shelley
193
Tennyson
194
Wordsworth
197
Carlyle
204
Coleridge
206
Dickens
210
Scott
212
American Writers Fuller
216

Early Writers Chaucer
151
Bacon
156
Montaigne
159
Shakespeare
162
Milton
179
Romantic and Victorian Writers Burns
187
Byron
190
Hawthorne
219
Thoreau
222
Whitman
227
BIBLIOGRAPHY
237
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
245
INDEX
247
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Eric W. Carlson is professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut and editor of three Edgar Allan Poe anthologies as well as coeditor, with J. Lasley Dameron, of Emerson?s Relevance Today: A Symposium.

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