Ralph Waldo Emerson | His mind is the horizon |
It was not until the nineteenth century, whose speculative genius is a sort of living Hamlet, that the tragedy of Hamlet could find such wondering readers. Now, literature, philosophy, and thought are Shakspearized. His mind is the horizon beyond which, at present, we do not see. Our ears are educated to music by his rhythm.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Shakspeare; or, The Poet,” Representative Men, 1850
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