...Culture', in Beat Scene Magazine, No. 13 (December 1991) pp.22-3. 32. As given in Emerson's The Poet': 'America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination ...'. The Archaeology of Gender in the Beat Movement Helen McNeil In her memoir Minor Characters, Joyce...

...stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes, and Indians, our boasts, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest...western clearing, Oregon and Texas, are yet unsung" (21-22). These remarks originate in a lecture of 1841-1842; the essay Emerson eventually fashioned...

...honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon, and Texas, as yet unsung. Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its...imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. —THE POET j3 gave birth to itself in an astonishing volume, augmentations, revisions, and V• rearrangements...

...stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes, and Indians, our boasts, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest...planting, the western clearing, Oregon, and Texas, as yet unsung. Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and...

...stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes and Indians, our boasts, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planring, the western clearing, Oregon and Texas, are yet unsung." In 1841, when Emerson first delivered...

...that the poet "incarnates [his country's] geography" alludes simultaneously to Emerson's "[America's] ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres" and to his central idea of the poet as representative man. Yet Whitman's "a bard is to be commensurate...

...log-rolling, our stumps and their politics, our Negroes and Indians, our boasts and their repudiations, the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trader, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon and Texas, are yet unsung. Yet America...

...clearing, Oregon and Texas'. At the time all these were still 'unsung' and overdue for poetic expression: 'America is a poem in our eyes, its ample geography...imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.' 42 Emerson said in The Poet' that he had looked 'in vain' for such a poet - then he read Leaves of...

...nation, but Emerson predicted his early advent: "I look in vain for the poet whom I describe. . . . Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography...imagination, and it will not wait long for metres." life is to skate well on them." "The lords of life," the spiritual ideas which glimmer through the...

...and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes. and Indians, our boasts. and our répudiations, thé wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, thé western clearing, Oregon, and Texas, are yet unsung (Emerson 1 844: 22). Die Vereinigten Staaten...