John Jay Chapman’s long opening essay on Emerson reads the sage of Concord as a fierce individualist, quoting him against the masses before weighing his meaning for America. Shorter pieces follow on Walt Whitman, the character of Romeo, Michelangelo’s sonnets, the fourth canto of Dante’s Inferno, Robert Browning and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Bracing, independent criticism from one of the most original American essayists of the 1890s. Download the free EPUB.