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This 5 page report discusses “The Poet” (1844) and essay by 19th century American poet and essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson. In it, he makes it clear that he has no use for those who he thinks of as “esteemed umpires of taste,” those who are unable to see beyond what is before them to the heart of the art and the beauty of its simple being
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essences of his time as well as the sense of America as coming into is own fullness. He was the quintessential New Englander Protestant and in fact had served as
a pastor for sometime. "The Poet" was printed in 1844 in his book of essays titled, simply enough "Essays." Its opening offers two snippets of Emersons poetry and in the
first, taken from his "A Discontented Poet" and presents a poetic and romantic vision of a child who is "moody" and "wildly wise." What a wonderful description for the man
Emerson himself was! "Children of the Fire" From the first lines of "The Poet," it is clear that Emerson has no use for those who he thinks of as
"esteemed umpires of taste." These are the people who in modern times are the sort who posture before paintings and sculptures in world class museums and comment self-importantly about the
form and beauty of an object and how it might conform to a certain classic ideal or capture a particular artistic element that serves as a metaphorical emblem of .
. . and so on and so on and so on. In short, Emerson derides those who have the artistic education that means nothing when they are unable to see
beyond what is before them to the heart of the art and the beauty of its simple being. They are, as he says "selfish and sensual. ...Their knowledge of the
fine arts is some study of rules and particulars, or some limited judgment of color or form which is exercised for amusement or for show" (pp. 1647). It would appear
that he both pities them and finds them repugnant. Emerson explains that these are the people whose lives have been proscribed by others and who have come to see their
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