 | Mark Richardson - 1997 - 296 páginas
...Text We Read?" 6. Frost echoes the following passage of Emerson's poem, which concerns Michelangelo: The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...than he knew; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. (Oxford Authors edition 496) Frost's allusion to the poem is shrewd and consequential. The implication... | |
 | William Gerber - 1997 - 252 páginas
...Emerson wrote: (175) The hand mat rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, ... He builded better than he knew; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Of architectural masterpieces throughout the world, Emerson declared: (176) Earth proudly wears the... | |
 | Lee Oser - 1998 - 204 páginas
...writing a masterpiece. This is precisely "The Problem," as Emerson presents it in his poem of that name: The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the...sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; . . . (Works, 9:7) 20. Kenneth Burke observed of Whitman, "In his 'oceanic' accumulation of details,... | |
 | Gail Marshall - 1998 - 268 páginas
...House, 1949). Appropriately, the epigraph to Harbron's book is a couplet from Emerson's The Problem': 'He builded better than he knew;- / The conscious stone to beauty grew' (lines 23-4). 33 Mrs Oliphant, Dress (London: Macmillan, 1878), p. 68. 34 St John and Craig refer to... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 580 páginas
...Christian churches recall the great seventeenth-century masters Emerson admired: Milton, Jonson, Marvell. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew. The penultimate poem in the 1 846 volume was "Threnody," Emerson's elegy for his first-born son, who... | |
 | Robert Faggen - 2001 - 308 páginas
...Problem," which concerns Michelangelo, and which marks a variation on the theme introduced in "Memory": The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew. Frost's references to this poem are shrewd and consequential. The implication in "The Problem" is that... | |
 | 1905 - 986 páginas
...years. All of which is respectfully submitted, (Mrs. Charles H. Terry) FRANCES AM TERRY, Secretary. The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the...sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He btiilded better than he knew; — WORK OF THE CHAPTERS Oakland Chapter (Oakland, California) held a... | |
 | Gordon Hayward - 2001 - 238 páginas
...place during the cold season. BUILDING POOLS AND FOUNTAINS CHAPTER TEN SETTING SCULPTURES AND BENCHES He builded better than he knew The conscious stone to beauty grew. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) JUST BECAUSE GRANITE STANDING STONES, SCULPTURE, AND benches in your... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2002 - 280 páginas
...2). 130.24-27 / "Wrought . . . grew.": Thoreau adapts the second stanza of Emerson's "The Problem": The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...than he knew — The conscious stone to beauty grew. 136.27-28 / pearls before swine: "Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before... | |
 | Linda Jones, Sophie Stanes - 2003 - 240 páginas
...Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe; The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...Painting with morn each annual cell? Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads? Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror... | |
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The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew. 
