...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...record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man; henceforward it is setded, the book is perfect; as love of the hero corrupts into worship of his statue"...

...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...

...did indeed help educate the American scholar, but nature and action did more. Books were a danger if "the sacredness which attaches to the act of creation...act of thought — is transferred to the record." When that happens, books about books are then written by (mere) Thinkers, not by Man Thinking. "Meek...

...some tincture of the "local," be fully relevant to the present. "Each age," the passage continues, "must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older generation will not fit this." In "The American Scholar," the same message is directed to the would-be...

...some tincture of the "local," be fully relevant to the present. "Each age," the passage continues, "must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older generation will not fit this." In "The American Scholar," the same message is directed to the would-be...

...reduces all strange constitutions, all new powers, to their class and their law, and goes on forever to animate the last fibre of organization, the outskirts...the act of creation, — the act of thought, — is instantly transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to be a divine man. Henceforth the...

...danger in merely accepting and dwelling in it, instead of constantly refashioning and reconstructing it: Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or...which attaches to the act of creation— the act of thought—is transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to be a divine man: henceforth...

...Emerson had called for American cultural independence from the cumbersome ideals of British culture: "Each age, it is found, must write its own books;...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this."12 In the spirit of Emerson, but with more anger, Sullivan fired diatribes against cultural constraints...

...Asiatic sages. —JOURNAL, 1841 What do you do all day? Do you occasionally catch a glimpse of blue sky? Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or...rather, each generation for the next succeeding.... Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation— the act...

...Columbia and Cambridge literary histories of the United States are following Emerson's advice: "each age must write its own books; or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this" (Emerson, 227). Sacvan Bercovitch, the editor of the Cambridge volume, attributes part of the impulse...