 Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions...  The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Página 17de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Ian Marshall - 1998 - 308 páginas
...and distinction for our artists. When Ralph Waldo Emerson proclaimed in "The American Scholar" that "our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close," he was expressing a wish that had been in the cultural air for half a century." It's hard to pinpoint... | |
 | Gustaaf Van Cromphout - 1999 - 196 páginas
...with voices and models that do not fit our experience. As Emerson warns in "The American Scholar," "The millions that around us are rushing into life,...always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests" (CW 1:52). As the prophetic voice of his people, the poet has the duty to deepen their consciousness... | |
 | Stuart Hutchinson - 1999 - 162 páginas
...after Ralph Waldo Emerson's declaration of American cultural independence in The American Scholar' ('our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands draws to a close. . . . We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe'), even a writer from the banks of the... | |
 | Aliki Varvogli - 2001 - 196 páginas
...apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close', he proclaimed in 'The American Scholar'. 'The millions that around us are rushing into life,...always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.' 4 This call stemmed from Emerson's desire to see the emergence of writers who would create a new idiom... | |
 | Russ Castronovo - 2001 - 372 páginas
...with the French Revolution. Or as Ralph Waldo Emerson put it in a statement of literary protectionism, "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...the learning of other lands draws to a close" ("The American Scholar," in Essays and Lectures [New York: Library of America, 1983], 53). 20 This assortment... | |
 | Aliki Varvogli - 2001 - 200 páginas
...Emerson was the major advocate of literary and intellectual independence for his country. 'Our days of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close', he proclaimed in 'The American Scholar'. 'The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot... | |
 | Bruce Wilshire - 2002 - 176 páginas
...a declaration of intellectual independence in the clarion opening pages of "The American Scholar": Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves. But we find it hard to let things sing, and it is easier to declare independence than to achieve it.... | |
 | John Dizikes - 2002 - 374 páginas
...Emerson's declaration that Americans must break free from their feeble dependence upon a European past: Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvest. Too long have we listened to the Courtly Muses of Europe. More important was the fact that... | |
 | Neil A. Hamilton - 2002 - 386 páginas
...he called on Americans to free themselves from the dead hand of European culture. He said, "Our long dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands draws to a close. Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves." The statement paralleled his... | |
 | Jeffrey Thomas Nealon, Susan Searls Giroux - 2003 - 236 páginas
..."The American Scholar," that American artists and thinkers leave behind the models of colonial Europe: "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close" (Selected Essays, 83). Or Poe's thoughts in his 1842 review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales: "As Americans... | |
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