...writing. When the mind is braced by labor* and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes 5 luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of ovr author is as broad as the world. We then see, what is alwayi true, that as the seer's hour of vision...

...on aerial navigation or Noah on submarine warfare. Says Emerson : "When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold illusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of the author is as broad as the world...

...creative writing. When the mind is bracecLbj labor and invention, the page of whatever book we reac becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence...doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broac as the world. We then see, what is always true, that as the seer's hour of vision is short and...

...Indies." There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes...the sense of our author is as broad as the world. To Acquire Culture and Urbanity. We say that a person is cultured when he is responsive to the appeal...

...Indies.' There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes...the sense of our author is as broad as the world." l D. Methods of Assimilation of Material. Emerson is thus suggesting to the debater that the latter...

...by manual work, and that <T fresh interest was thereby added to the knowledge gained from ^books. ' When the mind is braced by labour and invention, the...Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of the author is as broad as the world.' 18 He held that the act of production was in itself a training...

...Indies.' There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. "20 Neither Walter Pater nor TS Eliot can be denied the brawn of pertinacity implicit in the Emersonian...

...This sudden burst of inner light makes the domineering masterpiece seem less formidable. "We see then, what is always true, that as the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among the heavy days and months, so is its record, perchance, the least part of his volume." The aggressive...

...invention," we read the great works of the past with a light that emanates from us, not from them: "the page of whatever book we read, becomes luminous with manifold allusion." This sudden burst of inner light makes the domineering masterpiece seem less formidable. "We see then,...

...(a forefather of reader-response criticism) as "creative reading": "When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes...the sense of our author is as broad as the world" (CW\, 58). In Thoreau's development of this idea, vigorous reading becomes more than a source of intellectual...