...must carry out the wealth of the Indies." There is then creative reading, as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the...the sense of our author is as broad as the world. We then see, what is always true, that as the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days...

...must carn' out the wealth of the Indies." There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the...the sense of our author is as broad as the world. We then see, what is always true, that, as the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy'...

...must carry out the wealth of the Indies.' There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the...book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. "20 Neither Walter Pater nor TS Eliot can be denied the brawn of pertinacity implicit in the Emersonian...

...invention," we read the great works of the past with a light that emanates from us, not from them: "the page of whatever book we read, becomes luminous with manifold allusion." This sudden burst of inner light makes the domineering masterpiece seem less formidable. "We see then,...

...interpretation advanced by Emerson (a forefather of reader-response criticism) as "creative reading": "When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the...the sense of our author is as broad as the world" (CW\, 58). In Thoreau's development of this idea, vigorous reading becomes more than a source of intellectual...

...then we write. " "The American Scholar" places high emphasis on the process of "creative reading": "When the mind is braced by labor and invention the...we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion." In 1941, Matthiessen observed that "no American writer before Emerson had devoted such searching attention...

...must be an inventor to read well. . . . There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the...and the sense of our author is as broad as the world . . . there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man. History . . . he must learn...

...three "practical rules" for reading. 6 There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the...the sense of our author is as broad as the world. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, (1803-1882) US essayist, poet, philosopher. The American Scholar, Nature, Addresses...

...circumstances attain all its zest. [...] When the mind is braced by the weighty expectation of a prepared work, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous...doubly significant, and the sense of our author is äs broad äs the world. There is creative reading äs well äs creative writing. (Emerson 1926, 170)...

...must be an inventor to read well. . . . There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the...the sense of our author is as broad as the world. RALPH WALDO EMERSON "The American Scholar" I pause, take out a pen and draw a line in the margin. This...