#Humanities

"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 - XXI

Letter XXV WHILST man, in his first physical condition, is only passively affected by the world of sense, he is still entirely...

Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part XX

Letter XXIV ACCORDINGLY three different moments or stages of development can be distinguished, which the individual man, as well as the...

Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - XIX

Letter XXIII I TAKE up the thread of my researches, which I broke off only to apply the principles I laid down to practical art and the...

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...

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...

Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part VIII

Letter XII THIS twofold labour or task, which consists in making the necessary pass into reality in usand in making out of us reality...

"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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