The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation — the act of thought — is transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man: henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit : henceforward it is... Essays and Poems of Emerson - Page 291by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 525 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Carpenter Clancy - American prose literature - 1928 - 288 pages
...respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation...man: henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit: henceforward it is settled the book is perfect; as love of the hero corrupts... | |
| American essays - 1897 - 902 pages
...postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. . . . Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness...: henceforth the chant is divine, also. The writer was a just and wise spirit: henceforward it is settled the book is perfect ; as love of the hero corrupts... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1971 - 316 pages
...respects, to a remote posterity, as to cotemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation...the act of creation, — the act of thought, — is instantly transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to be a divine man. Henceforth the... | |
| Merton M. Sealts, Professor Merton M Sealts, Jr. - Novelists, American - 1982 - 446 pages
...Aristotle that seemed to rise coldly between themselves and Fayaway. "Each age," as Emerson shrewdly said, "must write its own books; or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." The statement aptly applies to the successive Lives of Melville from 1852 to 1892; it is just as pertinent... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - Philosophy - 1983 - 1196 pages
...respects, to a remote posterity, as to cotemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation...man: henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit: henceforward it is settled, the book is perfect; as love of the hero corrupts... | |
| Thomas Krusche - Idealism - 1987 - 384 pages
...Religion auf den "external evidence" der Wundertaten Jesu. Cf. "The American Scholar", CW I, p. 56: "The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation - the act of thought, - is instantly transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was feit to be a divine man. Henceforth the... | |
| Gustavo Pérez Firmat - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 412 pages
...American Scholar" (1837) established the grounds for a national, popular American literature — "Each age must write its own books; or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this."13 Marti's "Nuestra America" similarly provided a base for a national, Latin American literature... | |
| Norman O. Brown - Philosophy - 2023 - 216 pages
...Transcendentalist anticipation of what I want to say in Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa address on the American Scholar: "The books of an older period will not fit this. Yet...the act of thought, is transferred to the record. Instantly the book becomes noxious: the guide is a tyrant. The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude... | |
| Ronald E. Martin - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 428 pages
...conception that knowledge needs to be up-to-date, continually newly created: "Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation...The books of an older period will not fit this."** In "The American Scholar" *That movement had been established and promoted by Francis Calley Gray,... | |
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