...for idealization. She also denies what Emerson claims to be the necessary isolation of the poet's eye ("if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars"). For Emerson, a landscape may contain other human beings as farmers but scarcely other seers; in any...

...tripper To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society.... But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars....those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches.... But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their...

...entpuppt. 14 Nicht von ungefähr gilt der erste Gedanke, den Emerson in Nature ausführt, den Sternen: "But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars....those heavenly worlds will separate between him and what he touches. [...] Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are!" (Emerson 1903: 13). Vgl....

...modern astronomy,] Who can be a Calvinist or who an Atheist[?]—2 From Emerson's "Nature" (1836) But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. . . . One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly...

...lived and worked. Ralph Waldo Emerson, for whom Elizabeth Barnard had named her son, had once written: If a man would be alone, let him look at the stars . . . One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly...

...solitary: To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. . . .if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars....worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are always inaccessible....

...his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars....those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man,...

...sound like parodies of each other. Consider, for example, this line from the beginning of Nature. "But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars" (p. 9). Read without irony, the sentiment could be Lovecraft's, as it was also Frost's — to whom...

...his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heav enly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made...

...us "the perpetual presence of the sublime" (as Kant had realized), and furnish a sense of solitude: "If a man would be alone, let him look at the stars" (23). It is implied that, for the philosophical or poetic soul at least, "the world is too much with...