...biographies, histories and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" EMERSON (Introduction to Essay on Nature). " Leave, therefore, boldly, though not irreverently, mysticism...

...„Why should we not also enjoy an original relation to the uni verse ? Why should not wehaveapoetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition and...by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? . . . The sun shines to-day also." Bij Whitman vindt men dat sentiment op bijna iedere bladzijde....

...children have, such as Emerson referred to when he said : " The earlier generations saw God face to face ; we through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to Nature ? " It might be thought that the more science grows the more feeling should deepen. " All knowledge,"...

...Emerson in words that are as applicable to our times as to his, "beheld God and nature face to face; we through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should we not have a poetry and a philosophy of insight instead of traditions, and religion by revelation...

...biographies, histories and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream aiound and through us, and invite us by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why...

...biographies, histories, and criticisms. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the Universe?" He tells of the delight he feels in the presence of God's creation, and sees in it a source not merely...

...biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy...original relation to the universe? . . . Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded...

...after, he presents a negative grammatical and rhetorical structure that entangles these two moments: "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation...revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" Emerson's "Why should not we . . ." is a rhetorical form of inversion which ironizes the representation...

...imagination plays us false."21 Creative men should therefore be detached from the vertical generational line: "Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of...religion by revelation to us and not the history of theirs."22 In his monumental study of poetic influence, Harold Bloom negates the line of longitude...

...biographies, histories and criticism. The foregoing generation beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? 10 John Nevin was an American theologian who discovered history among a people who sought to escape...