...mysticism, and poetry, the answer can hardly remain doubtful : it comes in the defiant dictum of Emerson: 'All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.' This is the triumphant consciousness of individuality which belongs to the man of genius, and even...

...significant statement: "An Institution Is the lengthened shadov of one man . . . and all history resolve* Itself very easily Into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. " The truth of these words was demonstrated In the life and achievements of William Crawford Gorgas....

...the masses. Leaders of the American West: Who Are Their Heroes? John J. Gardiner & Kathryn E. Jones All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Ralph Waldo Emerson Steadily the frontier of settlement advanced and carried with it individualism,...

...disagreeing with the Emerson who wrote that "an institution is the lengthened shadow of a man" and that "all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons."38 A few months after Eliot published "Sweeney Erect" he gave a lecture on modern poetry in...

...Bloom, "The Central Man: Emerson, Whitman, Wallace Stevens," The Ringers in the Tower, 223-24. 12. "All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons" ("Self-Reliance," Complete Works 2:61). 13. The position 1 take on the "noble doubt" passage in Nature...

...paragraph of Emerson's essay 'Self-Reliance': 'an institution is the lengthened shadow of one man' and 'all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons'. //. 33-8: the Emerson echoes continue: the great soul, he writes, must not bother about consistency:...

...of creating a hypertext version of Gatsby. If it is true, as Emerson writes in "Self-Reliance," that "all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons," then we are witnessing the Bruccoli era. Note For a survey of Bruccoli's life and writings, see the...

...William Greenleaf Eliot fulfilled Emerson's ideal of an individual with the power to remake his world. 'All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons,' Emerson said. 'The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true...

...Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called 'the height of Rome'; and all history resolves itself very easily...the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. (267) In many of these cases, of course, the individuals and movements in question would have in their...

...caricatures of Emerson in Melville's writings, this "transcendental" view is decidedly non-Emersonian. "All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons," Emerson wrote in "Self-Reliance" (267), privileging the individual above cyclical events. Both the...