 | Jonathan David Fineberg, Jonathan Fineberg - 2001 - 306 páginas
...follows the transition in Emerson's "Nature" from the early "transparent eyeball" to the idea that the "ruin or the blank that we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye."12 But Whitman does not end his poem where Emerson and Wordsworth left their ruminations. In spite... | |
 | Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 páginas
...Nature the division between body and soul that Whitman, in this passage, claims to heal: "The ruin or blank, that we see when we look at nature, is in our...of things, and so they appear not transparent but opake" (E and L 47). According to Emerson, it is only during rare and privileged moments of vision,... | |
 | Wim Tigges - 1999 - 504 páginas
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 | Gustaaf Van Cromphout - 1999 - 196 páginas
...Nature, where "the redemption of the soul" supplies the correct point of view. Without such redemption, "the axis of vision is not coincident with the axis...of things, and so they appear not transparent but opake" (CW 1:43). Like Kant, Emerson insists that freedom, the sine qua non of morality, is "known"... | |
 | Bruce A. Ronda - 1999 - 424 páginas
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 | Wim Tigges - 1999 - 504 páginas
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The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty, is solved by the redemption of the soul. The ruin or the blank, that we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye. 
