...Novelists," pp. 322-325) Emerson said the American scholar "must be an inventor to read well. . . . He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies." Emily Dickinson across the ocean from George Eliot and Elizabeth Barrett Browning was isolated, inventing,...

...declaration as proclaimed in "The American Scholar": "One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, 'He that would bring home the wealth of the...book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. "20 Neither Walter Pater nor TS Eliot can be denied the brawn of pertinacity implicit in the Emersonian...

...invention," we read the great works of the past with a light that emanates from us, not from them: "the page of whatever book we read, becomes luminous with manifold allusion." This sudden burst of inner light makes the domineering masterpiece seem less formidable. "We see then,...

...poems. At a much greater distance, it also replies to the imperial solipsism of Emerson's aphorism "He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies," as well as to "The Sphinx" 's trial of male poetic initiation and to the Platonic idealism of "Give...

...then we write. " "The American Scholar" places high emphasis on the process of "creative reading": "When the mind is braced by labor and invention the...we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion." In 1941, Matthiessen observed that "no American writer before Emerson had devoted such searching attention...

...midcentury America's most eloquent spokesmen for "the party of Irony."z0 8/ Go Slow — Man Thinking When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the...manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant. — Emerson, "The American Scholar" Emerson Whips Words Until the Silence Reverberates Throughout the...

...Hannah Arendt, On Revolution (1963) One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry...Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of the author is as broad as the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar" (1837) Contents...

...ignore the record of the past, but approach it in a less overawed, more critical and active spirit: "There is then creative reading as well as creative...book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion" (p. 59). Emerson's vision is consonant with our best current thinking on reading, that meaning is created...

...uplifting inscriptions for Union Station, one of which mused enigmatically on the duties of empire: "He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." No evidence exists to say for sure whether the new men of power...

...of thinking — pursuing the wide world at hand — heroic work? How is it that, in Emerson's words, "When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the...whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion"?'1 What kind of heroism involves such luminous reading? It is no different from Emerson's...