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The Dancing Mind.('Emerson')(Book Review)
Emerson, by Lawrence Buell (Harvard, 416 pp., $29.95)
Lawrence Buell began this book when he was 26, he tells us, and now we have it when he is 64. He has had plenty of time to master the enormous quantity of Emerson's production-the essays, poems, and ten volumes of correspondence, the 16 volumes of journals and notebooks-and not only this but the prodigious amount of scholarly and critical material. As long ago as 1941-with F. O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance-Emerson and Whitman were canonized as the founding fathers of a uniquely American (as distinguished from English) literature. Buell, a longtime Harvard professor, has taken a deep breath and stepped ...
- Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 'The American Scholar': A Detailed Summary
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Emerson, Ralph Waldo January 1, 1963 700+ words
Emerson, Ralph Waldo Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 "The American Scholar": A Detailed Summary Emerson's first statements...opening lines of "The American Scholar" to the prose of Nature, that Emerson is at his stylistically...
- The American Scholar at Brown.(Brown University)
- Magazine article from: Liberal Education Armstrong, Paul B. September 22, 2002 700+ words
...Ralph Waldo Emerson's oration...what "The American Scholar at Brown...return to Emerson's notion of the American Scholar and explain...relevance. Emerson challenged...vision of the American scholar's civic...
- Phi Beta Kappa Announces New Editor at The American Scholar.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 13, 2004 700+ words
...Wilson's tenure as editor. The American Scholar was founded in 1932 by the Phi...Its name comes from Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous 1837 Phi Beta Kappa...Emerson's notion that the ideal 'American scholar' was not necessarily an academic...
- DUROUSSEAU NAMED AMERICAN SCHOLAR
- Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN) June 13, 1996 700+ words
...was named an All-American Scholar by the United States...established the All- American Scholar Award Program to offer...appear in the All-American Scholar Yearbook, which is...majoring in dance at Emerson School for the Visual...
- Allen Walker Read, American Scholar*.
- Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics Bailey, Richard W. December 1, 2004 700+ words
...and their talk. He took to heart Emerson's injunction that "we have listened...Whitman, and Carl Sandburg. But Emerson's American Scholar was not a bookworm. "Life is our dictionary," Emerson declared; "colleges and books only...
- American Scholar, The
- Reference information from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger January 1, 1995 700+ words
American Scholar, The (1932–), quarterly journal published by the United...and aimed at embodying and furthering the purposes and implications of Emerson's address from which its title is derived. In addition to articles...
- SEARS, HOOPER NAMED TO DIVISION II ALL-AMERICAN SCHOLAR GOLF TEAM
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News July 9, 2009 700+ words
...Association's (NGCA) Division II All-American Scholar Golf Team. A total of 410 women...the D-II ranks - earned the All-American scholar distinction, meeting the most stringent...during the season to earn NGCA All-American Scholar Golf Team honors. Sears (top right...
- The 2002 American Scholar Awards.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: American Scholar January 1, 2003 700+ words
...to announce the fifth annual AMERICAN SCHOLAR Awards, honoring the best writing...posthumously, received a 1999 American Scholar Award for Best Essay. * CRISTINA...Editors are not eligible for the American Scholar Awards.
