...materials, and saw [in them] . . . another carnival of the gods he admires so much in Homer. . . . Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes and Indians . . . the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing . . . are yet unsung.5 In concert...

...value of our incomparable materials" such as "Methodism and Unitarianism"; his 1842 list lamented that "our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes and Indians . . . are yet unsung."1 Neither as a religious nor as an ethnic group were Jews detectable; that they...

...cultural independence in the mid-nineteenth century: Emerson's perception of banks and tariffs resting "on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy, and the temple of Delphi," and Whitman's similarly neoplatonic alignment of epic prophecy and democratic vistas.19 Such...

...junge Stimme einer alten gegenüber unbedingt Gehör verschaffen und im Austausch ganz neu inszenieren: Our logrolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes. and Indians, our boasts. and our répudiations, thé wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern...

...middle age; then in Calvinism. Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, methodism and unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the...politics, our fisheries, our Negroes, and Indians, our boasts, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern...

...arguing that "America is a poem in our eyes," called for a revolutionary poetry that could include "our logrolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes, and Indians, our boasts, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern...

...Middle Age; then in Calvinism. Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, Methodism and Unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the...foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi, and are as swiftly passing away. Our logrolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries,...

...no genius in America, with tyrannous eye, which knew the value of our incomparable materials. . . . Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics, our...boats and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon...

...to find a Helen in every Osh Kosh, Emerson wrote: "Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus" were "dull to dull people but rest on the same foundations...wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphos." There in one sentence stands the whole Lindsay crusade to rebaptize Americana with wonder, a crusade...

...makes a poem," he declared. "Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, methodism and unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy." "I look in vain for the poet I describe," Emerson had said in that lecture. Thirteen years later, when...