...old, with a small, not popular, pamphlet called Nature, which stated succinctly in its third sentence: "But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars." This early individual man of Emerson's is a man alone, apart from his friends and even from his own...

...of sessions in the classroom. So I propose a makeshift. Near the start of the essay, Emerson writes: "If a man would be alone, let him look at the stars." Then he continues: The rays that come from those heavenly worlds will separate between him and what...

...impression so grand as that of the world on the human mind, they do not vary the result. CHAPTER I. NATURE To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much...those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in...

...enjoy an original relation to the universe?"71 Emerson suggests how to do this; begin with solitude: But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. . . . One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly...

...The selection "Art" is excerpted from Essays (Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1847), pp. 322-33. To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much...those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in...

...sentence of Emerson's first major essay should define the conditions for the procurement of solitude: 'To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society.' As Emily Dickinson puts it, 'the soul selects her own society/Then shuts the door.' No single sentence...

...impression so grand as that of the world on the human mind, they do not vary the result. I. NATURE To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. 1 am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let...

...for idealization. She also denies what Emerson claims to be the necessary isolation of the poet's eye ("if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars"). For Emerson, a landscape may contain other human beings as farmers but scarcely other seers; in any...

...light as a metaphor for the transcendent state of consciousness to be achieved in the new democracy. 1f a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. . . . The stars awaken . . . reverence. . . . There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose...

..."Nature," in 1836, Emerson revealed his preoccupation with solitude. The first chapter of "Nature" begins: "To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. ... In the woods, is perpetual youth."153 The hallmark preoccupations of Emersonian Transcendentalism...