"The Poet" Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part VI
The poets are thus liberating gods. The ancient British bards had for the title of their order, “Those who are free throughout the...
"The Poet" Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part IV
The world being thus put under the mind for verb and noun, the poet is he who can articulate it. For, though life is great, and...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part XVIII
Letter XXII ACCORDINGLY, if the æsthetic disposition of the mind must be looked upon in one respect as nothing—that is, when we confine...
When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer
WHEN I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part XVII
Letter XXI I HAVE remarked in the beginning of the foregoing letter that there is a twofold condition of determinableness and a twofold...
The Raven
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded,...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part XVI
Letter XX THAT freedom is an active and not a passive principle results from its very conception; but that liberty itself should be an...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part XV
Letter XIX TWO principal and different states of passive and active capacity of being determined can be distinguished in man; in like...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part XIII
XVII WHILE we were only engaged in deducing the universal idea of beauty from the conception of human nature in general, we had only to...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part XI
Letter XV I APPROACH continually nearer to the end to which I lead you, by a path offering few attractions. Be pleased to follow me a...
