Emerson, romanticism, and intuitive reason : the transatlantic "light of all our day"
"Comparative study in transatlantic Romanticism that traces the links between German idealism, British Romanticism (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Carlyle), and American Transcendentalism. Focuses on Emerson's development and use of the concept of intuitive Reason, which became the intellectual and emotional foundation of American Transcendentalism"--Provided by publisher
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xv, 555 pages)
9780826264961, 0826264964
191934830
Introduction: the critics and the participants
Intuitive reason: the light of all our day
Emerson's discipleship: resistance
Emerson's discipleship: shedding benignant influence
Powers and pulsations: quotation and originality
Intuition and tuition: reading nature and the use and abuse of books
Passivity and activity
Solitude and society: self-reliance and communal responsibility
Divinity within: the godlike self and the divinity school address
Emerson among the Orphic poets
Emersonian "optimism" and "the stream of tendency"
Wordsworthian hope: the deaths of Ellen and Edward
Mourning becomes morning: the death of Charles
Wordsworth's ode, Waldo, and "Threnody."
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English