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Emerson as Poet
By (Author) Hyatt Howe Waggoner
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literature: history and criticism
811.3
Paperback
228
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
312g
Since Yvor Winters' famous denunciation of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his writings in the 1930s, major critics have been silent on the subject, and Emerson scholars have generally avoided critical evaluation. Hyatt H. Waggoner reopens the debate, arguing that past criticism of Emerson has been limited by the inevitable but unfortunate influences of cu