...the reproduction of themselves in speech. The poet is the person in whom these powers are in balance, the man without impediment, who sees and handles that...cause, operation, and effect; or, more poetically, Jove,5 Pluto, Neptune; or, theologically, the Father, the Spirit, and the Son; but which we will call...

...Emerson what it will later be for Whitman: the man "without impediment," Emerson calls him in "The Poet," "who sees and handles that which others dream of,...being the largest power to receive and to impart." Emerson would have heard the voice of this poet in the first line of the volume Whitman was to send...

...Emerson, who stresses both the poet's receptive capabilities and his ability to stand alone: "The Poet is the man without impediment, who sees and handles that...being the largest power to receive and to impart." 45 In "Experience," he attributes this ability to himself: My reception has been so large, that I am...

...Copernicus and a Luther, and the next a Galileo and a Shakspere. Emerson said : " The poet is the man who sees and handles that which others dream of, traverses...in virtue of being the largest power to receive and impart." He is " a heart in unison with his time and country." And so I salute the workers in physical...

...of the poet in particular, if, as Emerson asserts, he is " the person in whom powers are in balance, the man without impediment, who sees and handles that...dream of, traverses the whole scale of experience, mid its representative of man, in virtue of being the largest to receive and impart." If to the poet...

...complete man, and apprizes us not of his wealth, but of the common wealth." He is "the interpreter," "the representative of man, in virtue of being the largest power to receive and to impart." "The poet is the sayer, the namer, and rtpraenss Beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre....