 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading...difficulties even with Milton and Homer. Milton is too literary, and Homer too literal and historical. But I am not wise enough for a national criticism,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1845 - 332 pages
...I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading...difficulties even with Milton and Homer. Milton is too literary, and Homer too literal and historical. But I am not wise enough for .a national criticism,... | |
 | 1846 - 492 pages
...I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading...difficulties even with Milton and Homer. Milton is too literary, and Homer too literal and historical." —p. Sad, indeed, is it that America has no genius,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 288 pages
...I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading...difficulties even with Milton and Homer. Milton is too literary, and Homer too literal and historical. But I am not wise enough for a national criticism,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1855 - 284 pages
...I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading...difficulties even with Milton and Homer. Milton is too literary, and Homer too literal and historical. But I am not wise enough for a national criticism,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1855 - 286 pages
...I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading...difficulties even with Milton and Homer. Milton is too literary, and Homer too literal and historical. But I am not wise enough for a national criticism,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 286 pages
...I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading...difficulties even with Milton and Homer. Milton is too literary, and Homer too literal and historical. But I am not wise enough for a national criticism,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1863 - 288 pages
...fcave not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading...difficulties even with Milton and Homer. Milton is too literary, and Homer too literal and historical. But I am not wise enough for a national criticism,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 274 pages
...I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading...difficulties even with Milton and Homer. Milton is too literary, and Homer too literal and historical. But I am not wise enough for a national criticism,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 574 pages
...I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading...difficulties even with Milton and Homer. Milton is too literary, and Homer too literal and historical. with sufficient plainness, or sufficient profoundness,... | |
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aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading now and then in Chalmers's collection of five centuries of English poets. These are wits more than poets, though there have been poets among them. But when we adhere to the ideal of the poet, we have our... 
