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" Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions... "
Select American Classics: Being Selections from Irving's Sketch Book and ... - Page 22
1896
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Story Line: Exploring the Literature of the Appalachian Trail

Ian Marshall - 1998 - 308 pages
...and distinction for our artists. When Ralph Waldo Emerson proclaimed in "The American Scholar" that "our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close," he was expressing a wish that had been in the cultural air for half a century." It's hard to pinpoint...
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Emerson's Ethics

Gustaaf Van Cromphout - 1999 - 196 pages
...with voices and models that do not fit our experience. As Emerson warns in "The American Scholar," "The millions that around us are rushing into life,...always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests" (CW 1:52). As the prophetic voice of his people, the poet has the duty to deepen their consciousness...
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Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

Stuart Hutchinson - 1999 - 162 pages
...after Ralph Waldo Emerson's declaration of American cultural independence in The American Scholar' ('our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands draws to a close. . . . We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe'), even a writer from the banks of the...
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The World that is the Book: Paul Auster's Fiction

Aliki Varvogli - 2001 - 196 pages
...apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close', he proclaimed in 'The American Scholar'. 'The millions that around us are rushing into life,...always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.' 4 This call stemmed from Emerson's desire to see the emergence of writers who would create a new idiom...
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Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth ...

Russ Castronovo - 2001 - 372 pages
...with the French Revolution. Or as Ralph Waldo Emerson put it in a statement of literary protectionism, "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...the learning of other lands draws to a close" ("The American Scholar," in Essays and Lectures [New York: Library of America, 1983], 53). 20 This assortment...
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The World that is the Book: Paul Auster's Fiction

Aliki Varvogli - 2001 - 200 pages
...Emerson was the major advocate of literary and intellectual independence for his country. 'Our days of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close', he proclaimed in 'The American Scholar'. 'The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot...
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Fashionable Nihilism: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy

Bruce Wilshire - 2002 - 176 pages
...a declaration of intellectual independence in the clarion opening pages of "The American Scholar": Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves. But we find it hard to let things sing, and it is easier to declare independence than to achieve it....
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Sportsmen and Gamesmen

John Dizikes - 2002 - 374 pages
...Emerson's declaration that Americans must break free from their feeble dependence upon a European past: Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvest. Too long have we listened to the Courtly Muses of Europe. More important was the fact that...
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Rebels and Renegades: A Chronology of Social and Political Dissent in the ...

Neil A. Hamilton - 2002 - 386 pages
...he called on Americans to free themselves from the dead hand of European culture. He said, "Our long dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands draws to a close. Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves." The statement paralleled his...
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Revolt of the Provinces: The Regionalist Movement in America, 1920-1945

Robert L. Dorman - 2003 - 386 pages
...paragraph of "The American Scholar," Emerson himself engaged in an act of "conscious decentralization" — "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close" — and at the same time exhorted his audience to "fill the postponed expectation of the world with...
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