411 Walt Whitman - A New Hope
The History of Literature
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The Poet Is the Sayer, the Namer, and Represents Bauty
Emerson says we are not pans of fire. Were not torch bearers. Were children of the fire, made of it. And only the same divinity, transmuted and at two or three removes when we know least about it. He goes on to say, the breadth of the problem is great, for the poet is representative. The young man reveres men of genius because they are more himself than he is They receive of the soul as he also receives. But they more nature enhances her beauty to the eye of loving men. From their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time he is isolated among his temporaries by truth and by his art. For all
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