Bliss Perry (1860–1954)
Author of The Heart of Emerson's Journals
About the Author
Works by Bliss Perry
Little Masterpieces: Ralph Waldo Emerson — Editor — 3 copies
Fishing with a Worm 1 copy
The Broughton house 1 copy
Associated Works
Selections From Edmund Burke — Editor, some editions — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1860-11-25
- Date of death
- 1954-02-13
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Birthplace
- Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
- Place of death
- Exeter, New Hampshire, USA
- Places of residence
- Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA (birth)
Exeter, New Hampshire, USA (death) - Education
- Williams College
University of Berlin
University of Strasburg (now University of Stasbourg, France) - Occupations
- professor
editor
critic
literary historian
essayist
novelist (show all 8)
short-story writer
autobiographer - Organizations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1905)
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The Heart of Emerson's Journal by Bliss Perry
$25. VG condition. Emerson published his journals.
Goethe exhorts the artist to create in forms of beauty, not to talk about it. [266]
The Renaissance was one of those ages of appreciation, when people looked upon Greek sculpture, and the epics of Homer and Virgil, and recognized that these products were the height of human achievement.
As a rationalist, Kant tended to separate the spheres of reason, sense, and morals, and to refer all three to subjective judgment. Schiller, his disciple, conceived of education as an aesthetic enterprise toward freeing man from bondage to the senses, leading him through culture, to a state of more perfect nature. There, as of the ancient Greeks, to stand among truth and goodness garbed in beauty.… (more)
The Renaissance was one of those ages of appreciation, when people looked upon Greek sculpture, and the epics of Homer and Virgil, and recognized that these products were the height of human achievement.
As a rationalist, Kant tended to separate the spheres of reason, sense, and morals, and to refer all three to subjective judgment. Schiller, his disciple, conceived of education as an aesthetic enterprise toward freeing man from bondage to the senses, leading him through culture, to a state of more perfect nature. There, as of the ancient Greeks, to stand among truth and goodness garbed in beauty.… (more)
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