...biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" CHAPTER 1 THE CALL T and time again for a number of years now I have sat at this keyboard attempting...

...biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face,- we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?'21 He spoke, it turned out, not just for a confrontation with the natural world but for a...

...dementsprechend in die Sprache religiöser Offenbarung: „The foregoing generations beheld God face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" (CW l, 7). Die Wendung zur Natur bedeutet für Emerson insofern eine Revision der zeitgenössischen...

...biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" 86 Die Gegenwart, die einer „ursprüngliche[n] Beziehung zum Universum" verlustig gegangen ist, kann...

...biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?63 Rather than praising the virtues of self-disciplined individuals who subordinate their desires...

...biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?"86 Die Gegenwart, die einer „ursprüngliche[n] Beziehung zum Universum" verlustig gegangen...

...biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face-to-face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and a philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history...

...beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?24 Emerson's thought was, on one level, precisely what Bloom and Updike describe, an attempt...

..."It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" At the end, mounting higher, he had "a certain poet" sing out for him, "'A man is a god in ruins,'"...

...biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" The need was great for a direct, unmediated experience of the divine: "Why should not we have a poetry...