...stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes, and Indians, our boasts, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest...have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading now 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...western clearing, Oregon and Texas, are yet unsung . . . America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait...

...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." His own poems could not quite meet that challenge. But Whitman wrote poems that did. Leaves of Grass,...

...stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes, and Indians, our boasts, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest...imagination, and it will not wait long for metres." The meters that Emerson's America found may not have been made entirely at Harvard, but they were certainly...

...stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes and Indians, our boats and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest...dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for meters" (E, 465). The many complexities of the interrelationships among these authors have been elucidated...

...experimental poetic hehaviours are high precisely hecause of their confronnng of 4. "America". Emerson notes. "is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination". llalph Waldo Emerson. "The Poet" (l844t. in Emerson.s Essays. ed. Sherman PauL London. l980. 224. This...

...weiteren Sinn der eines postmetaphysischen Denkens.184 In The Poet beschreibt er Amerika als Gedicht: „Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not long wait for meters."185 Hierbei wird die angesprochene Vielschichtigkeit des Denkens von Emerson...

...Graham and Lisa Jarnot Nick Selby Writing in his 1844 essay 'The Poet', Emerson famously declared that 'America is a poem in our eyes ... its ample geography dazzles the imagination' (224). This essay examines the most recent collections of two contemporary American poets - Jorie Graham's...

...This seems paradoxical: had Emerson not called for works which would chronicle events and passions: 'the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest...trade, the southern planting, the western clearing' (E 465)? Yet the aesthetic that distances art from the world of will is of the essence of his choice...