 Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions...  The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Page 17by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ian Marshall - 1998 - 308 pages
...and distinction for our artists. When Ralph Waldo Emerson proclaimed in "The American Scholar" that "our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close," he was expressing a wish that had been in the cultural air for half a century." It's hard to pinpoint... | |
 | Gustaaf Van Cromphout - 1999 - 196 pages
...with voices and models that do not fit our experience. As Emerson warns in "The American Scholar," "The millions that around us are rushing into life,...always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests" (CW 1:52). As the prophetic voice of his people, the poet has the duty to deepen their consciousness... | |
 | Stuart Hutchinson - 1999 - 162 pages
...after Ralph Waldo Emerson's declaration of American cultural independence in The American Scholar' ('our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands draws to a close. . . . We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe'), even a writer from the banks of the... | |
 | Gordon Hutner - 1999 - 632 pages
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 | Goutam Ghosal - 2000 - 164 pages
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