...1 see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign...or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance."? The passage insists, impossibly, not only that Emerson is not writing, but also that he is not writing...

...Ausfluß ekstatischer Naturer218 „I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing, l see all. [...] In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant...the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as bis own nature." Emerson, Nature. S. 13, 5-18. 219 Vgl. Emerson, The Poet. Works. Vol. 3. S. 14. 220...

...nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign...I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. (23-24) Bishop's emphasis on the eye's loneliness, its separation from even "the traces of a relative...

...identity and oppresses individuals: "I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all. . . . The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign...master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance. ... In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or the villages."6...

...nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign...acquaintances, master or servant, is then a trifle or a disturbance. (24) Worth noting here is the radical discontinuity that accompanies the vanishing...

...I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign...master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance." In this apocalyptic vision, all objects do indeed dissolve and flow before the penetrating eye of God/Emerson....

...the fullest significance of the lines from Nature that immediately follow those Cranch illustrated: "The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign...master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance" (LAE 10). These lines figure not simply the idealized isolation of the transparent eye-ball, but do...

...nothing; I see all." And when he was in that transparent state, people did not much matter to him: "The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign...to be acquaintances, — master or servant, is then trifle and a disturbance." A year later, however, he privately regretted this affinity for pure perception....

...nothing; I see all: the currents of the Universal Being circulate tbrough me; I am part or parcel of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental; to be brothers. to he acquaintances. master or servant. is then a trifle and a disturbance. l am the lover of uncontained...

...I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign...find something more dear and connate than in streets and villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds...