dwight john s sullivan (2 risultati)

Boston: Hilliard, Gray, 1839. First edition. Original green cloth, printed paper label. Volume III of George Ripley's "Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature". A presentation copy: "G.W. Haven, Esq. with the respects of J.S. Dwight". George Wallis Haven contributed some of the translations. Also helping Dwight were George Bancroft, Sarah Margaret Fuller (BAL 6489, her first appearance in a book), James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, Frederic Henry Hedge, Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, Charles Timothy Brooks, and Christopher Pearse Cranch. Dedicated to Thomas Carlyle, who told George Ellis in May of 1839 that Dwight, in this translation, ".seemed to understand the matter better than anyone else." Spine sunned. Label rubbed and chipped. Front hinge starting. Light foxing. A Very Good copy.

Dated Boston, Sept 5th, (no year). "Dear Parker" (Theodore Parker), inviting him to ".a gathering - an 'Aesthetic Tea' - composed of our friends at Mr. Clarke's, at Dr. Freeman's in Newton, tomorrow afternoon.I hope you will be there without fail, & be there early - they are delightful meetings, I can assure you." E.T.A. Hoffman wrote a story called "Die ästhetische Teegesellschaft" ("The Aesthetic Tea Society") in 1821. Thomas Carlyle mentions "aesthetic tea" in a review in the Foreign Review in 1828 of Sketch of the Life of Frederick Werner, by the Editor of Hoffman's Life and Remains. It appears again in Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, 1834. John Lothrop Motley includes an aesthetic tea in his novel Morton's Hope, 1839. Dwight's friend George William Curtis told a story about an aesthetic tea at Emerson's early in Hawthorne's tenancy at the Old Manse (about 3 years, beginning in 1842), see Early Letters ofCurtis toDwight: Brook Farm and Concord. 1898. Since the middle ages European philosophers and thinkers wrote about the use of tea to stimulate the psychic abilities. Paraphrasing "Papus" (Gérard Encausse), in Practical Magick, 1888: "If, not being afraid of boredom, you will go to the village and eat vegetable food and drink only milk and water, you will quickly calm down. But, if you aspire to excite the maximum transcendental abilities sleeping in you, add to the vegetarian food some glasses of green tea, and you will become capable of seeing the telepathic and astral phenomena." A half sheet, folded to make 4 pp., one is the letter, another bears the address in West Roxbury and a post mark, date illegible. One corner chipped, a little browned, a Very Good letter.