...speak on such matters as "Beauty" or "Spirit." The drama began innocently enough: To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as...if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. But it was clear, even in this innocent-seeming first step in the Poet's pilgrimage, that his spiritual...

...the US Forest Service in the early half of this century, and thanks to his impaso go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as...a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.' • — Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature" sioned advocacy, the wild heart of the Gila National Forest was...

...us "the perpetual presence of the sublime" (as Kant had realized), and furnish a sense of solitude: "If a man would be alone, let him look at the stars" (23). It is implied that, for the philosophical or poetic soul at least, "the world is too much with...

...solitude simply as a separation of the PERCEIVING THE SUBLIME 155 self from others: "To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as...I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if man would be alone, let him look at the stars" (2). Emerson suggests that solitude is a turn away from...

...Abgeschiedenheit zu einer wesentlichen Voraussetzung für die Transzendierung der Sinne. „To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as...society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, 151 Vgl. Emerson „The Poet". Works. Vol. 3. S. 12 ff. 152 Der experimentelle Charakter zeichnet Romantiker...

...circumstances by which he is circumscribed. Chapter i of Nature begins thus: "To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst 1 read and write."8 This assertion of solitude is a little strange, since it's a written one. It seems...

...we can recover, if we choose. Most splendidly, at the start of Chapter 1 of Nature, Emerson writes: if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars . . . seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If the stars should appear one night in a...

...INTRODUCTION 1. Thompson, Robert Frost: The Early Years, 88-89. 2. See, eg, Emerson's claim in "Nature" that "if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. . . . One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with the design, to give man, in the heavenly...

...das erste Kapitel Nature zum entscheidenden Thema. Es beginnt mit den Sätzen: To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as...those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in...

...rivers, thatVaux proposes for subjects of bronze stames are likewise encountered in Emerson's essay. "But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars," Emerson instructs his readers: "The rays that come from those heavenly worlds will separate between...