...entombment is the moment of institutionalization, the moment when, as he tells us in "The American Scholar," "the sacredness which attaches to the act of creation,...the act of thought, is transferred to the record" (W, 1: 88). What this record commemorates, as the monument or tomb of the act of creation, is not the...

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...College. Working his collegiate audience, he called for books relevant to a new generation of Americans: "Each age, it is found, must write its own books....succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this."1 But Emerson was far from alone in emphasizing the saving grace of youthfulness. That same year,...

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...potentially harmful version of the creative process. A "grave mischief" arises, according to Emerson, when "The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation,...the act of thought, is transferred to the record." Given the fact that only the record remains, the course the editors of Emerson's sermons have steered,...

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...with it rather than immerse ourselves in the cycle: "Each age, it is found, must write its own books The books of an older period will not fit this. Yet...record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man; henceforward it is setded, the book is perfect; as love of the hero corrupts into worship of his statue"...

...College. Working his collegiate audience, he called for books relevant to a new generation of Americans: "Each age, it is found, must write its own books....succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." 1 But Emerson was far from alone in emphasizing the saving grace of youthfulness. That same year, as...