| Henry David Thoreau - 1999 - 125 páginas
...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...transferred to the 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... | |
| Edward L. Widmer - 2000 - 305 páginas
...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... | |
| John J. Stuhr - 2000 - 724 páginas
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| Roger L. Geiger - 2000 - 128 páginas
...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... | |
| Richard P. Horwitz - 2001 - 420 páginas
...thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found,...transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to be a divine man: henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit: henceforward... | |
| Carl Dennis - 2001 - 217 páginas
...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... | |
| Carl Dennis - 2001 - 217 páginas
...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... | |
| David LaRocca - 2003 - 122 páginas
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| Karen A. Cerulo - 2002 - 324 páginas
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