On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson
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On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson

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In his essay "Compensation," Emerson makes a surprising claim: "Every soul is by this intrinsic necessity quitting its whole system of things, its friends, and home, and laws, and faith, as the shell-fish crawls out of its beautiful but stony case, because it no longer admits of its growth, and slowly forms a new house."

Branka Arsić unpacks Emerson's repeated assertion tha...more
Hardcover, 387 pages
Published April 15th 2010 by Harvard University Press
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