Comments on: Emerson Co-founds a Magazine http://somanybooksblog.com/2008/05/04/emerson-co-founds-a-magazine/ the agony and ecstasy of a reading life Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:48:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Stefanie http://somanybooksblog.com/2008/05/04/emerson-co-founds-a-magazine/#comment-40276 Stefanie Thu, 08 May 2008 12:50:03 +0000 http://somanybooks.wordpress.com/?p=1685#comment-40276 Dorothy, it is interesting isn't it? I mean, we think with all our advancements is science and technology and changes in culture we must be really different from 1847. Turns out, we haven't changed all that much. Litlove, the bit about politics was spooky. I think we like to think that the past was somehow better (or worse and we have improved) but the sad thing is, I read stuff like this and we haven't changed all that much. This is Emerson's second stint as an editor, he was one of the founders of The Dial before this one. I get the impression that The Dial was more about art than the MA Quarterly. I haven't gotten to his Dial writings yet but I will be! Dorothy, it is interesting isn’t it? I mean, we think with all our advancements is science and technology and changes in culture we must be really different from 1847. Turns out, we haven’t changed all that much.

Litlove, the bit about politics was spooky. I think we like to think that the past was somehow better (or worse and we have improved) but the sad thing is, I read stuff like this and we haven’t changed all that much. This is Emerson’s second stint as an editor, he was one of the founders of The Dial before this one. I get the impression that The Dial was more about art than the MA Quarterly. I haven’t gotten to his Dial writings yet but I will be!

]]> By: Litlove http://somanybooksblog.com/2008/05/04/emerson-co-founds-a-magazine/#comment-40241 Litlove Mon, 05 May 2008 19:20:57 +0000 http://somanybooks.wordpress.com/?p=1685#comment-40241 Oh that bit about politics was almost spooky, wasn't it? Or can it be that politics has always been that flimsy and we just hope that previous generations had more spine and integrity? How interesting, too, to think that Emerson became an editor - in that respect I found his opening essay most intriguing as he seems never to have mentioned his hopes and preferences for art....? Or was art too mixed in with politics and philosophy for him to mark a distinction? Oh that bit about politics was almost spooky, wasn’t it? Or can it be that politics has always been that flimsy and we just hope that previous generations had more spine and integrity? How interesting, too, to think that Emerson became an editor - in that respect I found his opening essay most intriguing as he seems never to have mentioned his hopes and preferences for art….? Or was art too mixed in with politics and philosophy for him to mark a distinction?

]]> By: Dorothy W. http://somanybooksblog.com/2008/05/04/emerson-co-founds-a-magazine/#comment-40237 Dorothy W. Mon, 05 May 2008 12:44:21 +0000 http://somanybooks.wordpress.com/?p=1685#comment-40237 How interesting to discover through Emerson how little we have changed -- in good and bad ways. Our culture has changed so much since Emerson's time, and yet we are still dealing with the very things he describes here. How interesting to discover through Emerson how little we have changed — in good and bad ways. Our culture has changed so much since Emerson’s time, and yet we are still dealing with the very things he describes here.

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