David Baker's Heresy & the Ideal

[alice wellintown]

American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and
Whitman By Francis Otto Matthiessen

One of the chapters in this text is "The Revenger's Tragedy"

Matthiessen delves into the Manichean Heresy ....black mass, black
magic ....Zoroastrianism in the American Romance.

Fairly essential, the revenge tragedy & heresy ...etc...to any
appreciation of American Romance.

Also, check out Puritan Typology and Heresy in American Romance.

Pinches and dimples,

Al

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:08 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> Romanticism by David Baker
>
> It is to Emerson I have turned now,
> damp February, for he has written
> of the moral harmony of nature.
> The key to every man is his thought.
> But Emerson, half angel, suffers his
> dear Ellen’s dying only half-consoled
> that her lungs shall no more be torn nor her
>
>
> head scalded by her blood, nor her whole life
> suffer from the warfare between the force
> & delicacy of her soul & the
> weakness of her frame . . . March the 29th,
> 1832, of an evening strange
> with dreaming, he scribbles, I visited
> Ellen’s tomb & opened the coffin.
>
>
> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=175835
>
>
> http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/byrnereviewbaker.html
>