...of the world on the human mind, they do not vary the result. CHAPTER I. NATURE To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as...those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in...

...enjoy an original relation to the universe?"71 Emerson suggests how to do this; begin with solitude: But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. . . . One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly...

...is excerpted from Essays (Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1847), pp. 322-33. To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as...those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in...

...first major essay should define the conditions for the procurement of solitude: 'To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society.' As Emily Dickinson puts it, 'the soul selects her own society/Then shuts the door.' No single sentence...

...as that of the world on the human mind, they do not vary the result. I. NATURE To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. 1 am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let...

...for idealization. She also denies what Emerson claims to be the necessary isolation of the poet's eye ("if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars"). For Emerson, a landscape may contain other human beings as farmers but scarcely other seers; in any...

...light as a metaphor for the transcendent state of consciousness to be achieved in the new democracy. 1f a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. . . . The stars awaken . . . reverence. . . . There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose...

...revealed his preoccupation with solitude. The first chapter of "Nature" begins: "To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. ... In the woods, is perpetual youth."153 The hallmark preoccupations of Emersonian Transcendentalism...

...entpuppt. 14 Nicht von ungefähr gilt der erste Gedanke, den Emerson in Nature ausführt, den Sternen: "But if a man would be alone, let him look at the...worlds will separate between him and what he touches. [...] Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are!" (Emerson 1903: 13). Vgl. dazu besonders Paul...

...see what else you can star-hop to. 110 April Ursa Major: A Dipper round tripper To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society.... But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds,...