This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...who calls himself the New Magician--the Poet who was toiling and plotting to fill the Globe with his Arts, and to make our common, every-day human life poetical--who would have all our life, and not a part of it, learned, artistic, beautiful, religious. We should have found, ere this, one, with learning broad enough, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...who calls himself the New Magician--the Poet who was toiling and plotting to fill the Globe with his Arts, and to make our common, every-day human life poetical--who would have all our life, and not a part of it, learned, artistic, beautiful, religious. We should have found, ere this, one, with learning broad enough, and deep enough, and subtle enough, and comprehensive enough, one with nobility of aim and philosophic and poetic genius enough, to be able to claim his own, his own immortal progeny--undwarfed, unblinded, undeprived of one ray or dimple of that all-pervading reason that informs them; one who is able to reclaim them, even now, " cured and perfect of their limbs, and absolute in their numbers, as he conceived them." XL There are those who can remember how public attention was startled, thirty-two years ago, by this unquestionably bold and brilliant paper. The success which it made, however, was all that ever befell its author from her presentation of these ideas, either in the way of public approval or of the means of living. Even the publishers' purpose, expressed in their letter to her, and announced to the public, to continue a series of like papers, was destined to fail. Negotiating from over sea, and through Emerson as an intermediary, she had, without knowing it, fallen into embarrassing complications with different publishers. The Boston house of Phillips, Sampson & Co. had expressly agreed in August to publish the entire book when completed. Dix & Edwards, in New York, had undertaken to print the first paper in their magazine, had asked for more, and had declared their desire to treat for the publication of the whole. From London, therefore, she now sought to adjust her relations to these two, which had been complicated...
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