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" There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and die sense of our author is... "
History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar - Page 160
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 180 pages
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The American Tradition in Literature

George B. Perkins - 1990 - 2156 pages
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Lyric Contingencies: Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens

Margaret Dickie - 1991 - 224 pages
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Dickinson and the Boundaries of Feminist Theory

Mary Loeffelholz - 1991 - 196 pages
...poems. At a much greater distance, it also replies to the imperial solipsism of Emerson's aphorism "He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies," as well as to "The Sphinx" 's trial of male poetic initiation and to the Platonic idealism of "Give...
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The Practical Elements of Rhetoric: With Illustrative Examples 1887

John Franklin Genung - 1995 - 546 pages
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Emerson's Literary Criticism

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1995 - 304 pages
...then we write. " "The American Scholar" places high emphasis on the process of "creative reading": "When the mind is braced by labor and invention the...we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion." In 1941, Matthiessen observed that "no American writer before Emerson had devoted such searching attention...
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Emerson: The Mind on Fire

Robert D. Richardson Jr. - 2015 - 708 pages
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Upper Limit Music: The Writing of Louis Zukofsky

Mark Scroggins - 1997 - 310 pages
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美囯文化与文学选集

潘绍中 - 1998 - 766 pages
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Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge

Mark Scroggins - 1998 - 424 pages
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Transcendentalism of Emerson's Homiletical Years (1826-1836)

Kenneth Walter Cameron - 1998 - 240 pages
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