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This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not
indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the
original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1909. Not
illustrated. Excerpt: ... his essays would have been constructed by
toil however "degrading," some at least of his poetry, had he been
a great poet, would have had a monumental character--whereas his
whole work, his cmvre, is rather a cairn than a structure, with of
course dire loss from a monumental point of view. Of all the
shortcomings of his poetry, indeed, the greatest, I think, is this
lack of any architectonic quality commensurate with his vision and
vitality. A great poet who never wrote a great poem is an anomaly.
One who never tried to is not fundamentally a poet, however poetic
the angle from which he viewed the universe and whatever the
radiance that plays about it in the interpretation he essayed.
Emerson's real greatness appears in the Essays in which, of course,
as I have said, imaginative art is less essential and which his
poetic fancy lifts as much above "Proverbs" as his formal poetry
falls below "Job." VIII The Essays are the scriptures of thought,
the Virgilian Lots of modern literature. To open anywhere any of
the volumes (including "Representative Men," which very strictly
belongs with the Essays) is to be at once in the world of thought
in a very particular sense. The abruptness of the transition is a
part of the sensation--like that of landing from a steamer, or
leaving a city train at a country station with the landscape
stretching out green and smiling in the morning sunshine. The
completeness of the contrast deepens as you go forward with Emerson
into the day, and surrender yourself to his influence in the spirit
of his surrender to his inspiration. This is the mood in which to
read him--the one, that is, in which he wrote. Soon you are
thinking almost in his diction. Any approach to the contentious
spirit you feel would affront opportunity and denounce ...
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Title: French Traits. An essay in comparative criticism.Publisher:
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edition identification: ++++ British Library Brownell, William
Crary; 1889, 1888]. 411 p.; 8 . 10174.bb.14.
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