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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 XV

Letter XIX TWO principal and different states of passive and active capacity of being determined can be distinguished in man; in like...

A Defence of Poetry - Part XI (Finale)

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the...

A Defence of Poetry - Part X

The functions of the poetical faculty are twofold: by one it creates new materials of knowledge, and power, and pleasure; by the other it...

Beauty & Truth

Part Four: Time and Eternity X I DIED for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an...

"The Poet" Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part VII (Finale)

"The Poet" Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part VI

"The Poet" Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part V

"The Poet" Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part IV

"The Poet" Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part III

"The Poet" by Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part II

"The Poet" by Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part I

Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part XXIII (Finale)

Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - XXII

Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - XXI

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