 | Martin Bickman - 2003 - 193 pages
...and exacerbate this situation; as Emerson had written in his address to Thoreau's graduating class: "The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,—let us hold by this" (1983, pp. 57-58). Thoreau uses a cluster of images for this process focusing... | |
 | Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 pages
...not enough of labor." Emerson announced that the education being celebrated that day suffocated him: "The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind . . . pin me down. They look backward and not forward." And not just Emerson, for "Meek young men grow... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,—let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. But genius looks... | |
 | Roger V. Bell - 2004 - 618 pages
...Nietzsche's elaborated critical apparatus of such an ear. Turning Emerson's page 1 reach the lines: The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good they say — let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. But genius... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...that Emerson's emphasis falls: In this action, it is genius. ... In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...Whatever talents may be, if the man create not the pure efflux of the Deity is not his; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. . . . Instead... | |
 | Mitchell Meltzer - 2005 - 216 pages
..."any institution," fixing any past achievement, is nothing less than the active soul's very enemy: The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his. (pp. 57-58) For Lincoln, the Revolution has passed, the primal time... | |
 | Andrew Epstein - 2006 - 376 pages
...new and ever-shifting ways. SCHOOLS ARE FOR FOOLS : WHERE CONFORMITY COLLIDES WITH THE AVANT-GARDE The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. — Emerson, "American Scholar" It is rather remarkable that American avant-garde poets of the 19505... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deityis not his; - cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative... | |
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The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward; the eyes of... 
