Sketch of the Philosophy of American Literature
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He was in structor in Greek at Harvard College in the years 1836- 1838, and in the latter year underwent a remarkable religious experience, under the influence of which he composed his profound and limpid sonnets (in the Shakespearian, not the Petrarchian form), which place him indisputably at the head of all American sonnet- ists. Very is, so to speak, the pineal gland, the point of union of emotion and pure thought, in which may be studied the passage of the sentimental into the transcen dent...al epoch.
The latter might as well be called the Emersonian period, for its inspiring vision was Emerson's. " The universe becomes transparent, " he exclaimed in ecstasy, " and the light of higher laws than its own shines through it. The moral law lies at the centre of nature and radiates to the circumference. Man's victorious thought reduces all things, until the world becomes at last only a realized will the double of the man. Spirit alters, moulds, makes nature. Build then your own world. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.
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He was in structor in Greek at Harvard College in the years 1836- 1838, and in the latter year underwent a remarkable religious experience, under the influence of which he composed his profound and limpid sonnets (in the Shakespearian, not the Petrarchian form), which place him indisputably at the head of all American sonnet- ists. Very is, so to speak, the pineal gland, the point of union of emotion and pure thought, in which may be studied the passage of the sentimental into the transcen dent...al epoch.
The latter might as well be called the Emersonian period, for its inspiring vision was Emerson's. " The universe becomes transparent, " he exclaimed in ecstasy, " and the light of higher laws than its own shines through it. The moral law lies at the centre of nature and radiates to the circumference. Man's victorious thought reduces all things, until the world becomes at last only a realized will the double of the man. Spirit alters, moulds, makes nature. Build then your own world. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.
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