The American Eye

Poetry. Included in this volume are two poems: the first,"Emerson in Europe," a verse translation of the journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who just prior to his Harvard speech, lamenting the death of his wife and having given up the cloth tours Europe, meeting with Wordsworth, Coleridge and Carlyle. A second poem, "The Vast Practical Engine," a lyric collage of the philosophy of pragmatism, utilizes the cadences of Emerson's godson William James. Together, these poems comprise a concise meditation onthe immense transformation in human thought contributedby these two radical thinkers."