 | James Russell Lowell - 1917 - 662 pages
...to come back to Emerson (whom, by the way, I believe we left waiting), — his is, we1 may say, Л Greek head on right Yankee shoulders, whose range Has Olympus for one pole, for t' other the Exchange ; He seems, to my thinking (although I'm afraid 550 The comparison must, long... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1918 - 750 pages
..."But, to come back to Emerson (whom, by the way, I believe we left waiting), — his is, we may say, A Greek head on right Yankee shoulders, whose range Has Olympus for one pole, for t' other the Exchange; He seems, to my thinking (although I 'ra afraid The comparison must, long ere... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
..."But, -to come back to Emerson (whom, by the way, I believe we left waiting), — his is, we may say, A Greek head on right Yankee shoulders, whose range Has Olympus for one pole, for t' other the Exchange; sso He seems, to my thinking (although I 'm afraid The comparison must, long... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1882 - 378 pages
...comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on. . A Greek head on right Yankee shoulders, whose range...Has Olympus for one pole, for t'other the Exchange; He seems, to my thinking (although I'm afraid The comparison must, long ere this, have been made),... | |
 | Jack Salzman - 1986 - 302 pages
...Hawthorne, and Lowell himself. Among the most acute of the critical portraits are those of Emerson ("A Greek head on right Yankee shoulders, whose range...Olympus for one pole, for t'other the Exchange"), Hawthorne ("There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare / That you hardly at first see the... | |
 | Various - 1996 - 496 pages
..."But, to come back to Emerson (whom, by the way, I believe we left waiting), — his is, we may say, A Greek head on right Yankee shoulders, whose range Has Olympus for one pole, for t' other the Exchange; 25 He seems, to my thinking (although I 'm afraid The comparison must, long... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 580 pages
...undergraduate rules (he wore a brown coat on Sunday instead of a black one), is not unwittily represented as A Greek head on right Yankee shoulders, whose range...Has Olympus for one pole, for t'other the Exchange . . . In whose mind all creation is duly respected As parts of himself- just a little projected. Outsiders... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...Emerson in A Fable for Critics (a poem revisited in the next chapter), is hardly wrong to speak of "A Greek head on right Yankee shoulders, whose range...Has Olympus for one pole, for t'other the Exchange" (23-24). Emerson could speak, in the elevated prose of "The Poet," of his ideal American singer finding... | |
 | Dominic Head - 2006 - 1241 pages
...NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE and LOWELL himself. Among the most acute of the critical portraits are those of Emerson ('A Greek head on right Yankee shoulders, whose range/...Olympus for one pole, for t'other the Exchange'), Hawthorne (There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare/ That you hardly at first see the... | |
 | Len Gougeon - 2012 - 280 pages
...beginning with James Russell Lowell's A Fable for Critics (1848), which famously describes Emerson as "A Greek head on right Yankee shoulders, whose range...Has Olympus for one pole, for t'other the Exchange." The problem here, however, resides more with the critics than with Emerson. If one allows that Emerson... | |
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