Emerson, Romanticism, and Intuitive Reason: The Transatlantic "light of All Our Day""Comparative study in transatlantic Romanticism that traces the links between German idealism, British Romanticism (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Carlyle), and American Transcendentalism. Focuses on Emerson's development and use of the concept of intuitive Reason, which became the intellectual and emotional foundation of American Transcendentalism"--Provided by publisher. |
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... Wanderer in The Excursion . In the final chap- ter , I trace the effect of the Intimations Ode on “ Threnody , ” the elegy for Waldo , a poem that may be read as an Emersonian version of Wordsworth's elegiac and affirma- tive ode . as a ...
... Wanderer in The Excursion . In the final chap- ter , I trace the effect of the Intimations Ode on “ Threnody , ” the elegy for Waldo , a poem that may be read as an Emersonian version of Wordsworth's elegiac and affirma- tive ode . as a ...
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... Wanderer in Emerson's favorite book of The Excursion . Though the tenth chapter , also focusing on the concept of “ di- vinity within , ” again engages the Wanderer of book 4 of The Excursion , it goes well beyond any form of orthodoxy ...
... Wanderer in Emerson's favorite book of The Excursion . Though the tenth chapter , also focusing on the concept of “ di- vinity within , ” again engages the Wanderer of book 4 of The Excursion , it goes well beyond any form of orthodoxy ...
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... Wanderer , the central figure in The Excursion , and the Words- worthian speaker most frequently cited by Emerson.28 Emerson also refers to Alcott in this letter as a man “ forever occupied with one problem — how spirit makes matter or ...
... Wanderer , the central figure in The Excursion , and the Words- worthian speaker most frequently cited by Emerson.28 Emerson also refers to Alcott in this letter as a man “ forever occupied with one problem — how spirit makes matter or ...
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... Wanderer had won out over the " heathen ” and disillusioned but salvageable Solitary , and even , to some extent , over the Poet . It was not a recent development . Wordsworth's epic , especially its fourth book , had provided Keats ...
... Wanderer had won out over the " heathen ” and disillusioned but salvageable Solitary , and even , to some extent , over the Poet . It was not a recent development . Wordsworth's epic , especially its fourth book , had provided Keats ...
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Contents
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Chapter 4 Emersons Discipleship | 118 |
Chapter 5 Powers and Pulsations | 153 |
Chapter 6 Intuition and Tuition | 184 |
Chapter 7 Passivity and Activity | 223 |
Chapter 10 Emerson among the Orphic Poets | 355 |
Chapter 11 Emersonian Optimism and The Stream of Tendency | 397 |
Chapter 12 Wordsworthian Hope | 425 |
Chapter 13 Mourning Becomes Morning | 447 |
Chapter 14 Wordsworths OdeWaldo and Threnody | 472 |
Appendix LAODAMIA AND DION | 512 |
Bibliography | 521 |
Index | 543 |
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