 The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no...  Miscellanies - Página 16por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 425 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Barillas - 2006 - 280 páginas
...mystical sublimation of ownership. "There is," he concludes, "a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts,...farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title" (Essays, 9). Emerson, then, accepts the republican relation of democracy and property (what he calls... | |
 | Anne Baker - 2006 - 194 páginas
...however, none of these men truly owns the landscape: "There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts,...men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title."2 Thus his own gaze enables him to order and reshape his environment, to discern the true meaning... | |
 | Andrew Epstein - 2006 - 376 páginas
...Emerson's wish to break out of our habitual modes of thinking by recovering the way one sees as a child ("To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun") and Stevens 's demand that "You must become an ignorant man again / And see the sun again with an ignorant... | |
 | Eric Wertheimer - 2006 - 220 páginas
...woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet" (9). Perhaps it is no coincidence that Emerson places the poet ascendant over Lockean property.1 0... | |
 | Len Gougeon - 2012 - 280 páginas
..."perpetual youth." It is this youthful freedom that is the subject of the following statement from Nature. To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature....superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward... | |
 | Christian Schäfer - 2007 - 42 páginas
...integration. For Emerson it is the poet who can do this best: "There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet" (9). Reading nature is described as a form of art, something that can not be done easily by everyone.... | |
 | David H. Evans - 2008 - 304 páginas
...woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts,...men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title."46 In "The Transcendentalist," Emerson commends the attitude of the idealist who "does not respect... | |
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