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Emerson and Merlin's “Dungeon Made of Air”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

B. J. Whiting
B. J. Whiting*
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Harvard University
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Comment and Criticism
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PMLA , Volume 64 , Issue 3 , June 1949 , pp. 598 - 599
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1949

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References

1 Emerson borrowed the work from the Boston Athenaeum in 1860, taking out Volume i on August 25th and Volume ii on September 7th; he returned both volumes on January 7, 1861; see Kenneth W. Cameron, Ralph Waldo Emerson's Reading (Raleigh, N. C, 1941), pp. 32,89.

2 Complete Works of Emerson (Boston, 1904), viii, 60–63.

3 Emerson, vin, 60–61. It should be observed that while Emerson gives no reference to Southey, he does inclose the passage in quotation marks.

4 viii, 60. He had entered the same sentiment in his journal in 1869: “Thus, in Morte d'Arthur, I remember nothing so well as Merlin's cry from his invisible inaccessible prison” —Journals, ed. E. W. Emerson and W. E. Forbes (Boston, 1909–14), x, 276. All he forgot was that the account was not in the Morte d'Arthur, and that was because he had not noted the fact. For another example of Emerson's free use of earlier scholarship, see “Emerson, Chaucer, and Thomas Warton”, American Literature, xvii (1945), 75–78.