 | Steven Johnson Leyba - 2001 - 162 pages
...the questioners? The American Revolutionaries? "In every work of genius we recognize our own refected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated...teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good -humored inflexibility/' - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance POPPY: You've been the subject of... | |
 | Richard Schacht - 2001 - 292 pages
...has some sort of genius. True virtue is genius.62 Early in his essay "Self-Reliance" Emerson writes, "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty" (Essays and Lectures, p. 259). Such writing enacts the very phenomenon it describes. The burden of... | |
 | Richard C. Levy - 2001 - 388 pages
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 | Brenda Sharp - 2002 - 0 pages
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 | David LaRocca - 2003 - 122 pages
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 | John O. Whitney, Tina Packer - 2002 - 321 pages
...I thought: Who better than Emerson to solve Polonius's paradox, especially since Emerson also said, "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." Then I read the essay more carefully. Emerson spoke beautifully to the first half of the paradox "To... | |
 | J Scott - 2002 - 128 pages
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 | Alan Jacobs - 2009 - 197 pages
...the outmost,—and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. ... In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty" (Essays 259). Even works of genius, then, cannot truly be gifts to us: They are merely our own possessions... | |
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we... 
