The Teachers of EmersonSturgis & Walton, 1910 - 325 páginas This book is about the influence of Greek philosophy on Ralph Waldo Emerson's writings. John S. Harrison argues that Emerson primarily drew his inspiration from Greek thought and not German/Eastern teachings. |
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... poets , " he writes . " Thomas Taylor , the Platonist , for instance , is really a better man of imagination , a better poet , or perhaps I should say a better feeder to a poet , than any man between Milton and EMERSON'S PLATONISM 7 .
... poets , " he writes . " Thomas Taylor , the Platonist , for instance , is really a better man of imagination , a better poet , or perhaps I should say a better feeder to a poet , than any man between Milton and EMERSON'S PLATONISM 7 .
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John Smith Harrison. to a poet , than any man between Milton and Wordsworth . ” 1 During his visits to England Emerson was constantly inquiring of the men he met whether they had read Taylor . And it was incredible , so he told ...
John Smith Harrison. to a poet , than any man between Milton and Wordsworth . ” 1 During his visits to England Emerson was constantly inquiring of the men he met whether they had read Taylor . And it was incredible , so he told ...
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... poets , a repertory for those who want the story without searching for it at first hand - a compend of all accepted tra- ditions . " 1 In the English Cudworth , too , Emerson found many fragments of ancient thought . The work of this ...
... poets , a repertory for those who want the story without searching for it at first hand - a compend of all accepted tra- ditions . " 1 In the English Cudworth , too , Emerson found many fragments of ancient thought . The work of this ...
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... poetry and music and dancing and as- tronomy and mathematics . I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world . With a geometry of sunbeams the soul lays the foun- dations of nature . The truth and grandeur of their thought is ...
... poetry and music and dancing and as- tronomy and mathematics . I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world . With a geometry of sunbeams the soul lays the foun- dations of nature . The truth and grandeur of their thought is ...
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... poetic raptures . And yet the reading of Plato was at times a most solemn event in Emer- son's life . He told one friend that it was a great day in a man's life when he first read the Symposium . Again , he explains that " the scholar ...
... poetic raptures . And yet the reading of Plato was at times a most solemn event in Emer- son's life . He told one friend that it was a great day in a man's life when he first read the Symposium . Again , he explains that " the scholar ...
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