... ," "metonomy," "transmigration," "circulation," "rhetoric." (29) From Goethe, as is well known, Emerson learned the natural analogy of the metamorphic leaf. Eric Wilson argues in Romantic Turbulence that the poetic science Emerson adapts from Goethe's symbol is ecological, more chaotic and contingent than is emphasized in traditional views of Romantic organicism and its model metaphors: "Attempting to write nature--not ... as something we might call, rather, organic metonymy? For one thing, it becomes more difficult to slight Emerson's interests in natural history and science as wholly s...

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