 Each age, it is found, must write its own books ; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this. Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, — the act...  Nature; Addresses, and Lectures - Página 85de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 383 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | George Cotkin - 2004 - 208 páginas
...Emerson had called for American cultural independence from the cumbersome ideals of British culture: "Each age, it is found, must write its own books;...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this."12 In the spirit of Emerson, but with more anger, Sullivan fired diatribes against cultural constraints... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 páginas
...Asiatic sages. —JOURNAL, 1841 What do you do all day? Do you occasionally catch a glimpse of blue sky? Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or...rather, each generation for the next succeeding.... Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation— the act... | |
 | John Lowe - 2005 - 342 páginas
...Columbia and Cambridge literary histories of the United States are following Emerson's advice: "each age must write its own books; or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this" (Emerson, 227). Sacvan Bercovitch, the editor of the Cambridge volume, attributes part of the impulse... | |
 | Harold Kaplan - 336 páginas
...rather than that force in themselves which is the source of manifold and contradictory achievement. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation,...of thought, is transferred to the record. . . . The writer was a just and wise spirit; henceforward it is settled the book is perfect; as love of the hero... | |
 | Alfred L. Brophy - 2006 - 312 páginas
...Emerson, American Scholar, in Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures 53, 56-57 (Joel Porte ed. 1983) ("Each age, it is found, must write its own books;...The books of an older period will not fit this"). 34. See Jim Sidanius et al., It's Not Affirmative Action, It's the Blacks: The Continuing Relevance... | |
 | Martin Scofield - 2006 - 239 páginas
...story Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his celebrated and seminal essay 'The American Scholar' (1837), wrote: 'Each age, it is found, must write its own books;...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.'13 And this desire to 'make it new' (in Ezra Pound's phrase) is no small part of the emphasis... | |
 | J. Caleb Clanton - 2008 - 176 páginas
...See, for instance, Stuhr 1997, ix-x. 3. See Emerson's "American Scholar." There Emerson maintains: "Each age, it is found, must write its own books;...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this" (1837, 67). 4. See, for instance, Stuhr 1997, 75 and 2003, 184; O'Shea 2000, 17; Parker 1999, 212.... | |
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