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Article: EMERSON, COLERIDGE, AND A PHANTOM QUOTATION.(Critical Essay)

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The penultimate sentence of the chapter on "Language" in Emerson's Nature ends with a quotation: "A new interest surprises us, whilst, under the view now suggested, we contemplate the fearful extent and multitude of objects; since `every object rightly seen, unlocks a new faculty of the soul'" (Nature 23). The standard edition of Emerson's Works identifies the quoted passage as taken from pages 150-51 of James Marsh's 1829 edition of Coleridge's Aids to Reflection (Nature 250). The attribution is repeated in Sealts and Ferguson's influential Emerson's Nature: Origin, Growth, Meaning (60) and is echoed in all the major textbook anthologies of American literature, often by ... 







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