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"""A compelling analysis of metaphor not just as a figure in the text of Emerson's philosophy but as material to its very thinking and writing. Greenham delineates a generative, conceptual map for rereading Emerson's mind at work in the metaphors on the page."" --Sean Ross Meehan, Washington College and author of A Liberal Education in Late Emerson: Readings in the Rhetoric of Mind ""Emerson's Metaphors is a brilliant exposition of how consideration of the cognitive workings of a poet's minding can illuminate and expand a conceptual theory of metaphor while at the same time revealing metaphor as the empirical basis of all human thought and language. Dr. Greenham traces in careful, comprehensive, and meticulous detail the emerging development of Emerson's metaphorical thinking through his readings and experience of Natural History in creating a concept of identity relating nature, humankind, and God."" --Margaret H. Freeman, Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts"

"""A compelling analysis of metaphor not just as a figure in the text of Emerson's philosophy but as material to its very thinking and writing. Greenham delineates a generative, conceptual map for rereading Emerson's mind at work in the metaphors on the page.""--Sean Ross Meehan, Washington College and author of A Liberal Education in Late Emerson: Readings in the Rhetoric of Mind ""Emerson's Metaphors is a brilliant exposition of how consideration of the cognitive workings of a poet's minding can illuminate and expand a conceptual theory of metaphor while at the same time revealing metaphor as the empirical basis of all human thought and language. Dr. Greenham traces in careful, comprehensive, and meticulous detail the emerging development of Emerson's metaphorical thinking through his readings and experience of Natural History in creating a concept of identity relating nature, humankind, and God.""--Margaret H. Freeman, Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts"

"""A compelling analysis of metaphor not just as a figure in the text of Emerson's philosophy but as material to its very thinking and writing. Greenham delineates a generative, conceptual map for rereading Emerson's mind at work in the metaphors on the page."" ""Emerson's Metaphors is a brilliant exposition of how consideration of the cognitive workings of a poet's minding can illuminate and expand a conceptual theory of metaphor while at the same time revealing metaphor as the empirical basis of all human thought and language. Dr. Greenham traces in careful, comprehensive, and meticulous detail the emerging development of Emerson's metaphorical thinking through his readings and experience of Natural History in creating a concept of identity relating nature, humankind, and God."""

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David Greenham is professor of English literature at the University of the West of England, UK.

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