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Title: Emerson and Other Essays

Author: John Jay Chapman

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EMERSON

AND OTHER ESSAYS

BY
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

AMS PRESS

NEW YORK

_Second Printing 1969_

Reprinted from the edition of 1899, New York
First AMS EDITION published 1965
Manufactured in the United States of America

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 75-108126
SEN: 404-00619-1

CONTENTS

EMERSON 3

WALT WHITMAN 111

A STUDY OF ROMEO 131

MICHAEL ANGELO'S SONNETS 153

THE FOURTH CANTO OF THE INFERNO 173

ROBERT BROWNING 185

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 217

EMERSON

I

"Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude,
lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need
not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede
anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and
draw individuals out of them. The worst of charity is that the lives
you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving. Masses! The
calamity is the masses. I do not wish any mass at all, but honest
men only, lovely, sweet, accomplished women only, and no
shovel-handed, narrow-brained, gin-drinking million stockingers or
lazzaroni at all. If government knew how, I should like to see it
check, not multiply the population. When i