 | Madison Julius Cawein - 1914 - 268 pages
...organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and...something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem." From The Poet, by EW EMEKSON. THE MORNING EOAD. The Morning drew a shawl Of misty lace around her,... | |
 | Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and...though imperfect, become the songs of the nations. AX that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.... | |
 | 1889 - 998 pages
...organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those- primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and...something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem." « For this reporting is required the " whole burst of the human mind," and t6 receive the report is... | |
 | René Wellek - 1977 - 396 pages
...tales.« 81. W, 3, 8: ». . .poetry was all written before time was. . . we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and...though imperfect, become the songs of the nations.« 82. Siehe Nelson F. Adkins, »Emerson and the Hardie Tradition«, PMLA, 63 (1948), 662 — 77. 83.... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1978 - 406 pages
...organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and...though imperfect, become the songs of the nations." "As the eyes of Lyncaeus were said to see through the earth, so the poet turns the world to glass,... | |
 | Frank Lentricchia - 1980 - 406 pages
...organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and...transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations.52 The poem must be "miswritten," since what the poet does is to try to bring down into time... | |
 | Emory Elliott - 1988 - 1312 pages
...Scholar" and "Self-Reliance" as the only path to immortality) suddenly is cast as villain of the piece: "we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own" in our attempts to hear and capture these pre-cantations, "and thus miswrite the poem." (Emerson did... | |
 | Harriet Scott Chessman - 1989 - 280 pages
...organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and...substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem."9 Emerson conceives of divine truths already present within the "primal warblings" of nature,... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1992 - 540 pages
...organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and...though imperfect, become the songs of the nations. "As the eyes of the Lyncaeus were said to see through the earth, so the poet turns the world to glass,... | |
 | 1980 - 538 pages
...organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and...something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.... and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations ("The Poet"). The Tal ly,... | |
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For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down. but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse... 
