...can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from his book, or write...efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to cotemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather,...

...American Scholar" (1837) established the grounds for a national, popular American literature — "Each age must write its own books; or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this."13 Marti's "Nuestra America" similarly provided a base for a national, Latin American literature...

...only one aspect of his conception that knowledge needs to be up-to-date, continually newly created: "Each age, it is found, must write its own books;...The books of an older period will not fit this."** In "The American Scholar" *That movement had been established and promoted by Francis Calley Gray,...

...Transcendentalist anticipation of what I want to say in Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa address on the American Scholar: "The books of an older period will not fit this. Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, the act of thought, is transferred to the record....

...local, the perishable" (CW\, 55), and were therefore in need of constant revision; "each age . . . must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding" (CW I, 56).46 With his deep-seated a- or transhistoricism, Thoreau could discount the warp of temporality...

...anti-orthodoxe Spiel kann zur Orthodoxie werden... 40 2. Regelwerk - Methodik und Interesse "Each age must write its own books; or rather each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." - RW Emerson, "The American Scholar" Ich möchte in diesem Buch ein Stück Literaturgeschichte nachvollziehen....

...its own terms," echoing Ralph Waldo Emerson's earlier call in The American Scholar (1837): "Each age must write its own books; or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." Creating consensus in the United States after the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the movements for...

...College. Working his collegiate audience, he called for books relevant to a new generation of Americans: "Each age, it is found, must write its own books....succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this."1 But Emerson was far from alone in emphasizing the saving grace of youthfulness. That same year,...

...College. Working his collegiate audience, he called for books relevant to a new generation of Americans: "Each age, it is found, must write its own books....succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." 1 But Emerson was far from alone in emphasizing the saving grace of youthfulness. That same year, as...

...with it rather than immerse ourselves in the cycle: "Each age, it is found, must write its own books The books of an older period will not fit this. Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, — the act of thought, — is transferred to the...