...justifiable exultation. Here are some of the phrases in which Emerson expressed his recognition and tribute. "I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and...in reading it, as great power makes us happy. ... I find incomparable things, said incomparably well, as they must be. ... I greet you at the beginning...

...Keller, Melcher, Stevenson's 16, Powys, Gray, Halsey, ALA, and Graham. Eliot selects nine short poems. that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it as great power makes us happy." Sidney Lanier says sanely: '"Leaves of Grass' was a real refreshment to me — like rude salt spray...

...author. " I am not blind ", he began, " to the worth of the wonderful gift of the Leaves of Grass. I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and...in reading it, as great power makes us happy. ... I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said...

...unknown author. "I am not blind," he began, "to the worth of the wonderful gift of the Leaves of Grass. I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and...in reading it, as great power makes us happy. ... I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said...

...21st, 1855. "Dear Sir, — I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of 'Leaves of Grass.' I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and...happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. It meets the demand I am always making of what seems the sterile and stingy Nature, as if too much...

...and turned to the proceedings of the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. "I find it," wrote Emerson, "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." And his pen, gathering speed, went on to say words that are among the necessary footnotes in any permanent...

...now return: unto us a man is born." To Whitman himself the Concord sage sent fine words of praise : "I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and...I am very happy in reading it as great power makes me happy. It meets the demand I am always making of what seems the sterile and stingy Nature, as if...

...letters — one to Emerson — and a letter from him to the poet, in which he characterised the book as " the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed," found its way into the New York Tribune, and created the first real demand for the work. A second edition...

...wrote you that he liked your book." "Emerson did not pause at a lukewarm liking. Emerson wrote me, 'I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed.' Emerson said, 'I greet you at the beginning of a great career.' " "What Emerson says won't sell many...

...copy to Emerson, whose response was one to turn the head of any young poet. "I find it," he wrote, "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. . . .It meets the demand I am always making of what seems sterile and stingy Nature, as if too much...