The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Letters and social aims [Vol. 8]

his story. After her death he joined Philip Augustus of France and Richard of England in the Third Crusade, in which he perished.

Page 39, note 1. "But if I should count the English poets who have contributed to the Bible of existing England and America, sentences of guidance or consolation, which are still glowing and effective,—how few! Milton, Shakspeare, Spenser, Herbert, Jonson, Donne, Dryden, Pope, Young, Cowper, Burns, Wordsworth: what disparity in the names! but these are the authors.

"But how shall I find my daily bread in the reigning poets? Where is great design in modern English poetry? Where with the exception of Wordsworth? Tennyson is richly endowed precisely in points where Wordsworth wanted. Since Milton there was no finer ear, nor more command of the keys of language. But he wants a subject. he has climbed no mount of vision and brought its secrets down."

Page 39, note 2.

Whatsoever hap befallsIn his vision's narrow wallsHe is here to testify."Fragments on Life," Poems, Appendix.
See thou bring not to field or stoneThe fancies found in books;Leave authors' eyes, and fetch your own,To brave the landscape's looks."Waldeinsamkeit," Poems.

Page 42, note 1. This is the second axiom of Fourier, the French socialist whose writings were at the root of the attempts in America to establish Brook Farm and some other communities. The first axiom was, The series distributes the

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The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Letters and social aims [Vol. 8]
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