 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
 | 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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