...Rückbesinnung auf »Amerika< We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Ralph Waldo Emerson The American Scholar Immer dann, wenn sich Veränderungen im Kreise der New York...

...next stage of decolonization: "We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. . . . What is the remedy?" (70-71). Rephrased, once we are no longer colonials, how do we become Americans?...

...independence." But Emerson's Address also contains this estimate of contemporary American society: "Public and private avarice make the air we breathe...country taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself." (Contemporary British society was little better, as Americans learned from reading Carlyle.) The young...

...ideal. "We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe," Emerson had written; "the spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame." Emerson urged the young American "to plant himself indominable on his instincts," and by these alone...

...essay disclosed, that "We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe" and thus "The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame" (W 1: 114). But of course and silently, it is the European idolizing of the past and its importation...

...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated...

...given the following passages: We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, and complaisant. See already the tragic consequence. The mind of this country taught to aim at low...

...materialistic values of the marketplace and their corroding effect on prospective poets and writers. "Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat," he observed. "Young men of the fairest promise ... are hindered from action by the disgust which the...

...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated...

...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated...