Mastodawn

A quote by Emerson on Success showed up as a meme on FB and maybe other places too.. It got me thinking of William James and W.B. Yeats words that I associate with "success" in the tacky commercialized sense and wondering if Emerson really said(or wrote this).. It's good that I searched because he probably didn't maybe he wasn't quite this 'pedantic' !?? I want to read and think a it more with his other poems though too.^2

> "this has the same pedantic feel and plodding meter of 'Success,' and WHC's dates are close to Emerson's. It appears that this type of writing was in vogue in the 2nd half of the 19th C. Even if 'Success' can't be found in WHC's writings, I think a search of the writings of Unitarians of that period are likely to bear fruit." Perhaps someone will be motivated to take an interest and follow this up.

https://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Philosophy/Sui-Generis/Emerson/success.htm

^2 https://amblesideonline.org/poet-emerson

https://www.poetryverse.com/ralph-waldo-emerson-poems/success

Yeats book; https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36865
和訳: https://gtgsh.hatenablog.com/entry/6bf841fa51b5b745305ec6a497811e2a
James article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2010/sep/23/william-james-centenary

#EmersonOnSuccess #BessieStanley #YeatsOnSuccess #JamesOnSuccess #WilliamJames #WBYeats #FoulWitch #BitchGoddess #CommercialSuccess #FoulWitch和訳

> ...[William James] is eminently quotable. In one letter to HG Wells he reflected on

"the moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess success".

We are indebted to him for expressions such as "stream of consciousness" too. Some have said he was a better writer than his brother, the novelist #HenryJames.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2010/sep/23/william-james-centenary
#WilliamJames #JamesOnSuccess

Mark Vernon: On the centenary of James's death, is there now more appetite for his pragmatic cherishing of beliefs that are good for life?

The Guardian