...uniquely qualified to speak on such matters as "Beauty" or "Spirit." The drama began innocently enough: To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much...if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. But it was clear, even in this innocent-seeming first step in the Poet's pilgrimage, that his spiritual...

...he was working for the US Forest Service in the early half of this century, and thanks to his impaso go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from...a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.' • — Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature" sioned advocacy, the wild heart of the Gila National Forest was...

...us "the perpetual presence of the sublime" (as Kant had realized), and furnish a sense of solitude: "If a man would be alone, let him look at the stars" (23). It is implied that, for the philosophical or poetic soul at least, "the world is too much with...

...does not define solitude simply as a separation of the PERCEIVING THE SUBLIME 155 self from others: "To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much...I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if man would be alone, let him look at the stars" (2). Emerson suggests that solitude is a turn away from...

...less tangible, less certain, less complete in its result. 1852, 1873 Ralph Waldo Emerson From Nature \ To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much...those heavenly worlds will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man,...

...Nature wird die Abgeschiedenheit zu einer wesentlichen Voraussetzung für die Transzendierung der Sinne. „To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much...society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, 151 Vgl. Emerson „The Poet". Works. Vol. 3. S. 12 ff. 152 Der experimentelle Charakter zeichnet Romantiker...

...describes the particular circumstances by which he is circumscribed. Chapter i of Nature begins thus: "To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much...chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst 1 read and write."8 This assertion of solitude is a little strange, since it's a written one. It seems...

...impression so grand as that of the world on the human mind, they do not varv the result. I. NATURE lers and with only the remnant of a leg, and 1 know...of them; which at length, after half an hour more, what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man,...

...we can recover, if we choose. Most splendidly, at the start of Chapter 1 of Nature, Emerson writes: if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars . . . seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If the stars should appear one night in a...

...INTRODUCTION 1. Thompson, Robert Frost: The Early Years, 88-89. 2. See, eg, Emerson's claim in "Nature" that "if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. . . . One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with the design, to give man, in the heavenly...