...of real sorrows. Nature says — he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me. Not the sun or the summer alone,...mourning piece . In good health, the air is a cordial ofincredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow-puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without...

...organic principle: "Nature says — he is my creature, and ... he shall be glad with me. Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its...corresponds to and authorizes a different state of mind." Correspondence suggests the "spiritual mediation of nature" by positing the unity of the finite...

...anticipates several themes in the similarly titled chapter of Zarathustra (4. 10). Compare Emerson: "Not the sun or the summer alone, but every hour and...from breathless noon to grimmest midnight ("Nature"). 41. Zarathustra often speaks of bringing things or people "up to [his] height"; there is a play on...

...only to its application to various social events. Daily answering nature's restless invitation, whose "every hour and change corresponds to and authorizes a different state of mind" (CW, 1:9), Americans should dwell at the site of the "new." And living in perpetual renewal is...

..."Nature" (which Whitman cited in an 1851 lecture), where Emerson hints at the instability of vision. "Every hour and change corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind," while what the eye beholds is at least in some sense its own reflection, "somewhat as beautiful as...

...sorrows. Nature says, — he is my creature, and maugre [despite] all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me. Not the sun or the summer alone,...the mind, from breathless noon to grimmest midnight. . . . In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever...

...distance. Such correspondences between states of light and states of mind confirm Emerson's dictum that "every hour and change corresponds to and authorizes a different state of mind, from breathless noon to grimmest midnight."9 Lighting the Scene As Mr. C's picture suggests,...

...Miller's life as well as his writings ring so many changes on one of Emerson's defining affirmations: "every hour and season yields its tribute of delight;...corresponds to and authorizes a different state of mind. . . . Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece. . . . Crossing...

...from those heavenly worlds will separate between him and vulgar things." Likewise, he declared that "not the sun or the summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight." Emerson establishes sympathy between these namral elements and the seasons and the course of lmman...

...sacramentalizes the human spirit or inner light in turn. "Not the sun or the summer alone," says Emerson, "but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight;...corresponds to and authorizes a different state of mind" (24). Thus is the "ground" of beseeching revealed and consecrated by an affirmation which moves...