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" Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight, and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of... "
Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 11
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 315 pages
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Encounters with God: An Approach to the Theology of Jonathan Edwards

Michael J. McClymond - 1998 - 207 pages
...of his first book, he wrote: "Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers.... The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" Nature, in Essays and...
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T.S. Eliot and American Poetry

Lee Oser - 1998 - 204 pages
...stresses Origen's role as a type of Logos. A pun on "Origen" arguably points to Emerson's famous query: "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" ( Works, 1:3). This suggestion may sound far-fetched, but Origen's actual failure to be an origin or...
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Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Anne Buttimer, L. Wallin - 1999 - 380 pages
...Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), who visited Muir in his cabin, had written, 'The foregoing generanons beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their...also enjoy an original relation to the universe?' (1835, in Finch and Elder, p.45.) Most nations, including those of Native Americans, have a bloody...
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The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 pages
...has brought about a similar shake-up in many a reader as well. "Our age is retrospective," he begins. "It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism." Emerson clears the agenda with a dismissive sweep, pointing out that "the foregoing generations beheld...
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The Poetics of Transition: Emerson, Pragmatism, and American Literary Modernism

Jonathan Levin - 1999 - 244 pages
..."Notes toward a Supreme Fiction," restages the classic American drama of the return to origins (CP 382). "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe," Emerson asked in the introduction to his 1836 essay Nature (EL 7). Stevens's Emersonian dream of a...
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Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture

Mary Chapman, Glenn Hendler - 1999 - 308 pages
...the sepulchers of the fathers" he asserts in the first lines of ЛД/ure. and famously goes on to ask "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" (7). Emerson's scorn for retrospect and sepulchers sees in mourning's attachment to the past, its effort...
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The Aesthetics of Enchantment in the Fine Arts, Volume 65

Marlies Kronegger, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - 2000 - 342 pages
...language, in mediating our perceptions, actually comes between us and our experiences. He writes: "Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of...also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" (1). We have moved away from having experiences, to reading about others' experiences. We prefer the...
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A Historical Guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joel Myerson - 2000 - 336 pages
...partly, in today's jargon, a generation gap. Nature begins with the well-known complaint that "[o]ur age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of...also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" (CW, 1:7). Emerson frequently gives voice to his generation's desire to make its own mark. Nature's...
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Alexandria 5: Cosmology, Philosophy, Myth, and Culture, Volume 5

David Fideler - 2000 - 482 pages
...or a worship of dead forms. Thus his famous complaint and proposal at the beginning of Nature: Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why...
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Wild Fruits: Thoreaus Rediscovered Last Manuscript

Henry David Thoreau - 2001 - 436 pages
...months short of his graduation from Harvard University. At the beginning of the book Emerson claims that "foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we through their eyes." He then articulates in the form of a question the Transcendentalist Imperative: "Why should not we...
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