Criticism
… only because the series was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, but also because race remains a tricky, paralyzing subject. What … more than the “usual mosaic of dreary census, school, and income statistics, studded with pious quotations from the … of discovering those meanings in large measure on the audience”) or in the nearly 100 pages of extended …
… $12.95. The doctrines of the Over-Soul, correspondence, and compensation seem nowadays to add up to shallow optimism and … congenial to the modern sensibility; the revival of studies in Unitarian theological history forced a … later work in so challenging a way, Emerson’s Fall points beyond itself, as, in Emerson’s view, all compelling …
Criticism
… it lasted five days, and nearly ten thousand Union army soldiers were injured there. Each day, another long list. … holding a government sinecure while volunteering in hospitals and writing. When in “Song of Myself” he describes “The … between Whitman’s thicket of nouns and Dickinson’s comparative desert. (To visualize a Whitman poem, one must …
… one half to the noble nature of the walker (Ryleyev died in 1903, and it was on the occasion of his death that … a “style of majesty,” a being “in uniform and toga,” but also something profoundly human and sublimely human, but … is the “Court personnel,” already formed and ready for the coming and expected power, for les rois in rags. Looking …
… development, which some of them apparently hope will be accompanied by such ills as have been chronic in the North for … for Washington will do little for the South that is not expedient, as witness the government’s attitude of favoritism in … seem that even from the standpoint of the go-getter who points with pride and easily sees red, the South should …
… We greet them heartily enough but often with a slight, uncomfortable restraint—these boys who, donning the uniform, … civilian is entitled to the utmost comradeship with the soldier. By all means, therefore, let us have it. Let us take … we may well go cantering in the saddle of a hobby-horse. 268-277 By Walter L. Myers …