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" Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of... "
Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Página 7
de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 372 páginas
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The American Mystery: American Literature from Emerson to DeLillo

Tony Tanner - 2000 - 276 páginas
...far as Emerson was concerned: fathers (and fathering countries, like England) are to be forgotten. 'Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? . . . The sun shines today also . . . There are new lands, new men, new thoughts.'8 Emerson, and many...
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The Puritan Origins of American Sex: Religion, Sexuality, and National ...

Tracy Fessenden, Nicholas F. Radel, Magdalena J. Zaborowska - 2001 - 332 páginas
...readers to cease their retrospection, to stop looking through the eyes of the foregoing generations. "The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" asks the first paragraph.1 In the last sentence, Emerson holds out the promise that each of his readers...
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Passionate Sage: The Character And Legacy Of John Adams

Joseph J Ellis - 2001 - 290 páginas
..."Our age is retrospective," he observed in Nature. "It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. . . . The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" But while Emerson's formulation called for rebellion instead of reverence, it sustained the convention...
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Sight & Sound: Naturbilder in der englischen und amerikanischen Romantik

Frank Mehring - 2001 - 194 páginas
...des ehemaligen kolonialen Mutterlandes, um zu einem originären künstlerischen Ausdruck zu gelangen: „The foregoing generations beheld God and nature...also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" 7 Diese rhetorisch geschickte Aufforderung zur einem künstlerischen Neubeginn verstellt den Blick...
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In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to George W. Bush

William Edward Leuchtenburg - 2001 - 436 páginas
...the opening lines of Nature. "It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. . . . The foregoing generation beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their...original relation to the universe? . . . Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past?"8 In one respect a long line of earlier presidents had a...
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Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel ...

Yunte Huang - 2002 - 226 páginas
..."direct treatment of the 'thing.' " 30. In the introduction to Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of...God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes" (Essays 7). 31. See Marjorie Perloff, The Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Poetry of the Pound...
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Framing Hitchcock: Selected Essays from the Hitchcock Annual

Sidney Gottlieb, Christopher Brookhouse - 2002 - 432 páginas
...vision-obsession of the work, and suggest a vision trapped in the past (a major Hitchcock motif): "Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of...beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes."4 The allusion here, of course, is to St. Paul, but the specific emphasis is on the contrast...
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The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920

Jeffrey P. Sklansky - 2002 - 340 páginas
...(1836), Emerson's spectacular philosophical debut, define the central problem he set for his readers: "The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?"30 The universe, according to Emerson, comprised "Nature and the Soul." By "nature," then,...
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Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics ...

Jay Grossman - 2003 - 292 páginas
...that comes into focus when we inquire on whose behalf Emerson calls for this "original relation"? Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of...we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? 2 5 This passage permits certain modes of mediation while refusing others. The "original," unmediated...
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Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry

Bonnie Costello - 2003 - 252 páginas
...country is continually "awakening" from the slumber of derivativeness. Emerson complains in 1836 that "the foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" (Nature, I).1 Moore was herself a persistent critic of her culture's tendency, as she writes in "Poetry,"...
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