...what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, o I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low." And, in 1845, when c Henry David Thoreau leaves the city for the wilderness, he finds refuge in a small...

..."American Scholar" speech of 1836. Says Emerson: I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic; ... I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet...have the antique and future worlds. What would we know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news...

...great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit...to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds" (Writings 61). 216 Henrietta Street: Just west of Covent Garden Market and very near 34 to the Duke...

...'slop-pail' level."24 Rescuing Emerson from those who would link the author's aesthetics to his celebration of "[t]he meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street" (EL 69), Holmes asserts that Emerson "was not often betrayed into the mistake of confounding the prosaic...

...read by Ralph Waldo Emerson, he had called for a new approach to American literature: "What would we know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin, the milk in the pan!" Only when I found Sarah Orne Jewett did I think I knew what he meant. What her stories suggested to...

...streets that most stories emanate and receive their wings. As Emerson wrote about his populist muse, "I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet...today, and you may have the antique and future worlds." Such was the case a number of years ago, in the small Nicaraguan city of Tipitapa, as I sat at the...

...near, the low, the common." Emerson, who on the evidence never embraced much of anybody, proclaims, "I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low." Of course, he is really referring to diction, and if "The American Scholar" has enduring validity,...