Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-245) and index
Introduction by way of William Empson’s Buddha faces -- What counts as love : Jonathan Edwards’s "True virtue" -- Representing grief : Emerson’s "Experience" -- The way of life by abandonment : Emerson’s Impersonal -- The practice of attention : Simone Weil’s Performance of impersonality -- "The sea’s throat" : T. S. Eliot’s Four quartets -- "Lines of stones" : the unpersonified impersonal in Melville’s Billy Budd.
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