 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 wisdom that America has yet contributed.  Studies in Philology - Pagina 771926Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Thomson Hastings - 1928 - 454 pagina’s
...Leaves of Grass, and John Addington Symonds a Symonds. It explains why Emerson considered the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet [in 1855] produced"; why Thoreau thought all the sermons ever preached not equal to it for divinity;... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1995 - 304 pagina’s
...the worth of the wonderful gift of "Leaves of Grass." I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit & wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very...happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. It meets the demand I am always making of what seemed the sterile & stingy Nature, as if too much handiwork... | |
 | Kenneth M. Price - 1996 - 392 pagina’s
...writes that he finds in his book "incomparable things, said incomparably well." The book he pronounces "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed;" at which, indeed, says Mr Emerson in the printed letter sent to us, — "I rubbed my eyes a little,... | |
 | Shaun O'Connell - 1997 - 400 pagina’s
...Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Sage of Concord, wrote to Walt Whitman, the obscure, Brooklyn journalist-poet: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which...must have had a long foreground somewhere, for such a start."92 That "long foreground" is Whitman's New York story. Among American writers, Whitman possessed... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1997 - 56 pagina’s
...done so much to inspire Whitman in the first place. Emerson wrote Whitman a letter calling the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." "I greet you at the beginning of a great career," Emerson wrote, perhaps recognizing in Whitman the very... | |
 | Milton Hindus - 1997 - 308 pagina’s
...writes that he finds in his book 'incomparable things, said incomparably well.' The book he pronounces 'the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed;' at which, indeed, says Mr. Emerson in the printed letter sent to us — 'I rubbed my eyes a little,... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1999 - 568 pagina’s
...Massachusetts, 2i July, i855 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 seemed the sterile and stingy nature, as if too much... | |
 | Joel Myerson - 1999 - 484 pagina’s
...the worth of the wonderful gift of "Leaves of Grass." I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit & wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very...happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. It meets the demand I am always making of what seemed the sterile & stingy Nature, as if too much handiwork... | |
 | Jerome Loving - 2000 - 642 pagina’s
...of Grass." I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit & wisdom that America has yet conttibuted. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. It meets the demand I am always making of what seemed the sterile & sringy nature, as if too much handiwork... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 2000 - 564 pagina’s
...in ninetyfive pages, small quarto. The book was immediately pronounced by Ralph Waldo Emerson to be "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." Other critics followed suit, and Walt Whitman became as famous as the author of the Book of Mormon.... | |
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