...of creating a hypertext version of Gatsby. If it is true, as Emerson writes in "Self-Reliance," that "all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons," then we are witnessing the Bruccoli era. Note For a survey of Bruccoli's life and writings, see the...

...William Greenleaf Eliot fulfilled Emerson's ideal of an individual with the power to remake his world. 'All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons,' Emerson said. 'The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true...

..."Self-Reliance": An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as Monarchism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism,...the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. (267) In many of these cases, of course, the individuals and movements in question would have in their...

...demonstrate Emerson's own proposition that "[a]n institution is the lengthened shadow of one man . . . and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons."1 Moreover, many of the essays in the book deal chronologically with Emerson's development,...

...caricatures of Emerson in Melville's writings, this "transcendental" view is decidedly non-Emersonian. "All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons," Emerson wrote in "Self-Reliance" (267), privileging the individual above cyclical events. Both the...

...confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man . . . , and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. (E, 267) Avoid influences, be original, and you provide yourself the opportunity to create yourself...

...as ... the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons." It is in "Self-Reliance" that Emerson also wrote: "Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist."...

...Whether or not, as Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man;... and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons," the lengthened shadow of England's royal family comes very near to being a history of England itself....

...the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. . . . All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons." There are many stout and earnest persons in this story, but Thomas Clarkson's fiery resolve is at its...

...him, cultural traits are merely conglomerations of individual traits. As he says in "Self- Reliance," "All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons" (CW2, 36). 3. My reading of Emerson thus runs counter to those who limit the question of Bildung to...