Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page xix
... poet - of a low class , no doubt , yet a poet . My singing , be sure , is very husky , and is for the most part in prose . Still I am a poet in the sense of a perceiver and dear lover of the harmonies that are in the soul and in matter ...
... poet - of a low class , no doubt , yet a poet . My singing , be sure , is very husky , and is for the most part in prose . Still I am a poet in the sense of a perceiver and dear lover of the harmonies that are in the soul and in matter ...
Page 172
... poet are , that he announces that which no man foretold . He is the true and only doctor ; he knows and tells ; he is the only teller of news , for he was present and privy to the appearance which he describes . He is a beholder of ...
... poet are , that he announces that which no man foretold . He is the true and only doctor ; he knows and tells ; he is the only teller of news , for he was present and privy to the appearance which he describes . He is a beholder of ...
Page 186
... poet by reading now and then in Chalmer's collection of five centuries of English poets . These are wits , more than poets , though they have been poets among them . But when we adhere to the ideal of the poet , we have our difficulties ...
... poet by reading now and then in Chalmer's collection of five centuries of English poets . These are wits , more than poets , though they have been poets among them . But when we adhere to the ideal of the poet , we have our difficulties ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | vii |
FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND I | 1 |
RACE AND ABILITY II | 11 |
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