The American Scholar

The American Scholar Criticism

• Principal Works
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism
    • The Making of an American Prophet: Emerson, His Audiences, and the Rise of the Culture Industry in Nineteenth-Century America
    • Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Vision's Imperative: ‘Self-Reliance’ and the Command to See Things As They Are
    • The Nature of War in Emerson's ‘Boston Hymn’
    • Toward a Grammar of Moral Life
    • ‘What poems are many private lives’: Emerson Writing the American Plutarch
    • Emerson's ‘Domestic and Social Experiments’: Service, Slavery, and the Unhired Man
    • ‘Too Pathetic, Too Pitiable’: Emerson's Lessons in Love's Philosophy
    • ‘Living Property’: Emerson's Ethics
    • The Anti-Emerson Tradition
    • Emerson, Disclosure, and the Experiencing Self
    • Fate, Power, and History in Emerson and Nietzsche
    • Emerson and Christianity
    • Emerson and the Woman Question: The Evolution of His Thought
    • ‘Metre-Making’ Arguments: Emerson's Poems
    • Emerson and Nature
  • Further Reading
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo (Poetry Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism
    • The Poet
    • Poetry and Imagination
    • Emerson's Poems
    • Nine New Poets
    • Emerson as a Poet
    • A review of May-Day and Other Pieces
    • A review of May-Day and Other Pieces
    • Emerson's Poems
    • Poems
    • A Puritan Plus Poetry
    • The Poetry of Emerson
    • Poetry, England, and the War
    • Emerson's Theory of Poetry
    • Emerson and Poetry
    • Toward the 'Titmouse Dimension': The Development of Emerson's Poetic Style
    • Artful Thunder
  • Further Reading