...household life, are the topics of the time ... I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ... I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low (Emerson68-69). 7. This focus on the museum as an institution, and its concrete relation to aesthetic...

...forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books" (67). "Give me insight into today, and you may have the antique and future worlds" (78). Note the rapidity of, the shock in, Emerson's sudden juxtapositions. Both parts of them turn...

...Although he is often termed a 'transcendental, ist', Emerson does not wish to transcend the common world. 'I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet...today and you may have the antique and future worlds.' 'An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge', commonly known as the...

...self-conscious refusal of cosmopolitanism — a refusal that situates Williams alongside Cavell's Emerson ("I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet...meaning of? The meal in the firkin,- the milk in the pan,the ballad in the street,- the news of the boat . . .").60 Compare the "Prologue" to Kora in Hell,...

...understanding of the mechanic arts" (Complete Works 12:122). When in "The American Scholar" Emerson remarks, "I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low," he has in mind studying the form and order of natural commonplaces as Michelangelo studied anatomy....

...of effort to become more alive to the present moment as the only theater of spiritual development. "Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds" (CW 1: 67). These influences of modern literature were also supplemented by a wide variety of religious...

...themselves for long journeys into far countries, is suddenly found to be richer than all foreign parts. ... I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet...today, and you may have the antique and future worlds." Boo\s for General Reading and Discussion: (1) An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser. Liveright. $1.00....

...1 g This presentist sensibility is reinforced by Emerson in "The American Scholar" when he writes, "Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds." This passage is an indicator of how Emerson addresses the tragedy of a diminished past and an unknown...

...arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves. I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic. I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet...today, and you may have the antique and future worlds. Emerson's proclamation rang down through succeeding generations because it touched on ideas deeply...

...being? 2 Rousseau and the Experience of Others I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic. ... I embrace the common. I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? RW Emerson,...