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For Emerson and Thoreau's projected anthology, and Emerson's sponsorship of Thoreau's career as a poet, see Robert Sattelmeyer Thoreau's Projected Work on the English Poets
C. Luibhéid, P. Rorem, R. Roques, J. Pelikan, J. Leclercq, Karlfried Froehlich (1987)
The Complete Works
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For a facsimile text of Thoreau's copied over entries from Emerson's commonplace books
R. Emerson, G. Maine, Delancey Ferguson (2009)
Essays and Poems
Kent Ljungquist (2000)
THE COMPLICITY OF IMAGINATION: THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE, CONTESTS OF AUTHORITY, AND SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH CULTUREResources for American Literary Study
(2004)
The Commonplace Books of William Byrd and Thomas Jefferson and the Gendering of Power in the Eighteenth Century (1992)
Parnassus , ” in the Houghton Library collection
M7 T5, places it among US local history books, far removed numerically and, in many libraries, spatially from Thoreau's more recognizably literary writing
A. Moss (1996)
Printed Commonplace-Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought
J. Porte, S. Whicher, R. Spiller, W. Williams, R. Emerson (1960)
The early lectures of Ralph Waldo EmersonThe New England Quarterly, 32
(2001)
Sayings, Self, and Society in Sixteenth-Century England (1993)
K. Cameron (1964)
Thoreau's literary notebook in the Library of Congress
For Foucault ’ s elaboration of these criteria , see “ What is an Author ?
(2003)
See Grossman's Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation
H. Longfellow
Outre-Mer; A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea
Edith Emerson Forbes, in the publication of the 1874 Parnassus, and the importance of this volume to Emerson's late essays "Poetry and Imagination" and "Quotation and Originality
For a concise treatment of the intensity and the ferment of their relationship in these years, see Sattelmeyer
H. Thoreau, D. Lunt, H. Kane
The Concord and the Merrimack : excerpts from A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Stabile analyzes the circulation of commonplace books among a coterie of women in
Further references to this edition will be made by page number in the text. For the canonical disavowal that Thoreau was the inspiration for "Woodnotes
Robert Sattelmeyer (1989)
"When He Became My Enemy": Emerson and Thoreau, 1848-49The New England Quarterly, 62
藤田 佳子 (2004)
ヘンリー・デイヴィッド・ソローのA Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers : からの逸脱
B. Kaufman (2002)
The PoetCallaloo, 25
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Thoreau. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Common Places: Poetry, Illocality, and Temporal Dislocation in Thoreau’s A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Meredith L. McGill Commonplace books are difficult if not impossible objects for historicist literary study. While they can be (and have been) studied as reflections of the sensibility of the compiler, offering the critic a valuable record of an individual’s course of reading, the attempt to read commonplace books in historical context only serves to accentuate the difference between literary criticism and its object. To the critic, entries in a commonplace book gain coherence and accrue significance insofar as they offer insight into the subjectivity of the copyist, while to the compiler these texts are heterogeneous, publicly available, valuable because external to the self. The critic makes sense of a commonplace book by placing its texts in context, and yet commonplacing draws its crea- tive charge from decontextualization. The critic takes the frag- ments that the compiler has assembled piecemeal, intermittently, and unevenly over time, and incorporates them into a narrative that testifies both to their internal consistency and to their congruency with their times. While the historicist critic must regard the com- monplace book as typical—of an era, a culture, a
American Literary History – Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 28, 2007
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