 Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.  Works - Page 15by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Robert Milder - 1995 - 266 pages
...in the cadences of the prose: "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a cloudy sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration" (CW I, 10). The differences are also telling. Where Emerson is passive and wholly spiritual, a bodiless... | |
 | Alton L. Becker - 1995 - 464 pages
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 | Ali Nomad - 1996 - 320 pages
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 | Carlos Baker - 1996 - 640 pages
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 | Andreas Fischer, Martin Heusser, Thomas Herrmann - 1997 - 366 pages
...Platonist notions, holds true for Cummings' thinking, as well 8 Cf. Nature: Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without...fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. ... I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate... | |
 | Richard Francis - 1997 - 286 pages
...into sharp and memorable focus when he gives us this vignette of himself: "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. Almost I fear to think how glad I am."28 One can recognize the experience Emerson describes without... | |
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