By Stephen Donadio, Professor Stephen Railton, Professor Ormond Seavey
The essays proceed a discussion among the recent England of Emerson and the recent York milieu of the early Thirties. the hot York discussion flourished between intellectuals at the same time eager about the political outcomes of liberalism and Marxism and with the imaginative implications of modernism. In either classes the vexing dating between politics and literary expression was once a typical concern. Contributors, a few of whom write approximately Emerson, a few approximately Quentin Anderson, are Jacques Barzun, Stephen Donadio, Denis Donoghue, Aaron Fogel, Carl Hovde, Steven Marcus, Stephen Railton, Ormond Seavey, Peter Shaw, Timothy Trask, Diana Trilling, and Paul Zweig.
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In his youth, he had acted in plays, and his pulpit presence evidently employed an actor's sense of movement, timing, and vocal range. Fifty years after Whitefield's death, Emerson and his brother Edward visited John Adams in Quincy and heard the eighty-nine-year-old man reminisce about hearing Whitefield preach when he was a freshman at Harvard. "He had a voice such as I never heard before or Page 5 since," Adams told the young Emersons. "He cast it out so that you might hear it at the meeting house (pointing toward Quincy Meeting h[ou]s[e]) and had the grace of a dancing master, of an actor of plays.
The cant denunciation of these movements as peripheral "elite" phenomena arises not so much from an egalitarian affirmation as from a distaste for a world presented in such large and complicated terms. One of the lamentable aspects of Emerson's legacy, in fact, has been the cultural habit of trimming the world to the dimensions of the observer's capacities and interests. The centers of intellectual gravity in Europe do not customarily permit this sort of free-floating ignorance to establish much claim to attention.
They have gathered here, however, in honor of a largeness of spirit they have all felt and in a common feeling that Anderson has rightly seen how the terms and origins of American expression, as they have come down to us from Emerson and Whitman, Page ix have subverted attempts to imagine the United States as a society. They share his bemusement at a literature which can excite us by the prospect of denying so many of our human needs. Anderson's own commitmentto his teaching as well as to the fate of American culturehas always led him, despite the formidable personal manner described in Jacques Barzun's essay, into keeping open an intercourse with the world.