 | Margaret Fuller - 1992 - 540 pages
...ever and anon a word, or a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences...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,... | |
 | Eberhard Alsen - 1996 - 312 pages
...lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own. and thus misurite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences...though imperfect. become the songs of the nations. t322l Even if Emerson overstates the importance of inspiration. his comments imply a principle that... | |
 | Eberhard Alsen - 1996 - 312 pages
...lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus mis write the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences...faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, hecome the songs of the nations. (322) Even if Emerson overstates the importance of inspiration, his... | |
 | Eberhard Alsen - 2000 - 354 pages
...lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem, The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences...though imperfect, become the songs of the nations, t322 1 Even if Emerson overstates the importance of inspiration, his comments imply a principle that... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 2000 - 548 pages
...famously use.s the phtase "liberating God" to describe The Poet" in Essays: Second miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transctipts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations." "As the eyes of Lyncsus were said... | |
 | Cynthia J. Gamble - 2002 - 300 pages
...ever and anon a work, or a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences...though imperfect, become the songs of the nations. 54 Proust was able, immediately and effortlessly, to identify the characteristics of a writer's style,... | |
 | Jay Grossman - 2003 - 292 pages
...ever and anon a word, or a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences...though imperfect, become the songs of the nations. ("The Poet" LAE449) In this manner, Emerson solves the problem of origins; poetry preexists all poets,... | |
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... 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 and substitute... 
