The Celebration of Intellect
Celebration of Intellect (delivered at Harvard in 1870)
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Chapter I Society and Solitude
SEYD melted the days like cups of pearl, Served high and low, the lord and churl, Loved harebells nodding on a rock, A cabin hung with curling smoke, Ring of axe or hum of wheel Or gleam which use can paint on steel, And huts and tents; nor loved he less Stately lords in palaces,…
Literary Ethics
An Oration delivered before the Literary Societies ofDartmouth College, July 24, 1838 GENTLEMEN, The invitation to address you this day, with which you have honored me, was so welcome, that I made haste to obey it. A summons to celebrate with scholars a literary festival, is so alluring to me, as to overcome the…
Poems
Title: Poems Uniform Title: Works. 1903. v. 9 Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company City: Boston Date: 1904 Note: An electronic copy of the title page and verso are available online. Call number:828 .E536 1903a v.9
Vol VII – Society and Solitude (1870)
I Society and Solitude II Civilization III Art IV Eloquence  V Domestic Life  VI Farming  VII Works and Days  VIII Books  IX Clubs  X Courage  XI Success  XII Old Age
Chapter XI Aristocracy
The feudal character of the English state, now that it is getting obsolete, glares a little, in contrast with the democratic tendencies. The inequality of power and property shocks republican nerves. Palaces, halls, villas, walled parks, all over England, rival the splendor of royal seats. Many of the halls, like Haddon, or Kedleston, are beautiful…
12. Art
Give to barrows, trays, and pans Grace and glimmer of romance; Bring the moonlight into noon Hid in gleaming piles of stone; On the city’s paved street Plant gardens lined with lilac sweet; Let spouting fountains cool the air, Singing in the sun-baked square; Let statue, picture, park, and hall, Ballad, flag, and festival, The…