Vol XII – Natural History of the Intellect (1893)

I Framed his tongue to music, I armed his hand with skill, I moulded his face to beauty, And his heart the throne of will. MILTON.' The discovery of the lost work of Milton, the treatise " Of the Christian Doctrine," in 1823, drew a sudden attention to his name. For a short time the…

     IN our fidelity to the higher truth we need not  disown our debt, in our actual state of culture, in the twilights of experience, to these rude helpers. They keep alive the memory and the hope of a better day. When we flout all particular books as initial merely, we truly express the privilege…

      The Teutonic race have been marked in all ages by a trait which has received the name of Earth-hunger, a love of possessing land. It is nor less visible in that branch of the family which inhabits America. Nor is it confined to farmers, speculators, and filibusters, or conquerors. The land, the care of…

AS we are very liable, in common with the letter‑writing world, to fall behind‑hand in our correspondence; and a little more liable because in consequence of our editorial function we receive more epistles than our individual share, we have thought that we might clear our account by writing a quarterly catholic letter to all and…

Celebration of Intellect (delivered at Harvard in 1870)

Bibliographies See also  Biography Criticism and Collections of R.W. Emerson’s Poetry along with a summary of each work Buell, Lawrence. “Emerson’s Poetry.” In Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Lawrence Buell. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1993. Summary: In this essay, Buell discusses the themes, form, and style of Emerson’s poetry, as well…