 Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.  Essays and Poems of Emerson - Page 150by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 525 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Adolph Charles Babenroth, Howard Thompson Viets - 1928 - 628 pages
...he dismisses without notice his thought because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." It is strange that any one who has recognized the individuality of all works of lasting influence,... | |
 | Rob Wilson - 1991 - 358 pages
...better than your own, indeed may be your own best words): "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty" (147). Emerson's stand serves as a productive belief in the power of self-reliance — the conviction... | |
 | David Richo - 1991 - 148 pages
...respect in them what we inwardly disavow in ourselves. "In every work of genius, we can recognize our own rejected thoughts. They come back to us with a certain alienated majesty" (Emerson). I and It The Shadow turns some of our "I" (what is really ourselves) into "It" (which seems... | |
 | Daniel T. O'Hara - 1992 - 348 pages
...famous remark from the opening of "Self-Reliance" (1841) that "in every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty" (259). But who is really speaking in this journal entry? And to whom? We say in answer to both questions,... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1993 - 280 pages
...traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. ... In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. 23 This famous declaration reveals a more fundamental reason why "John Milton" seemed to Emerson to... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...editor. Kleismer. in Daniel Deronda, bk. 3, ch. 23 0876). 19 In every work of genius we recognize our HE (1749-1832), German poet, dramatist. Wilhelm Meisier's Apprenticeship, bk. RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-82), US essayist, poet, philosopher, fssays, "Self-Reliance" (First Scries,... | |
 | L. Rust Hills - 1993 - 276 pages
...got to say it first. As Emerson says in "Self-reliance": "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts . . . they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." Complacency is seldom a problem with people who are selfobsessed: they get to know themselves too well... | |
 | Thomas J. Scheff - 1990 - 231 pages
...he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. [4| Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our... | |
 | William M. Shea, Peter A. Huff - 2003 - 378 pages
...is announced in the opening paragraph of "Self-Reliance": "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." Even among those readers who know this sentence well, there is resistance in taking Emerson to be naming... | |
 | Sanford Budick - 1996 - 372 pages
...the opening paragraph of the quite early "Self- Reliance": "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." Even from those who remember this sentence, there is, 1 have found, resistance in taking Emerson to... | |
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