Belief and Disbelief in American LiteratureTom Paine and republican religion -- Landscape as religion: Irving, Bryant, Cooper -- Transcendentalism and Emerson -- The cosmic optimism of Walt Whitman -- The pessimism of Mark Twain -- The cosmic loneliness of Robert Frost. |
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... find out God ? Yes , says Paine . I did not make myself , I know I have existence , and I search in things for a cause and find none . Can I find out the Almighty to perfection ? No , answers Paine , He is incomprehensible . But ...
... find out God ? Yes , says Paine . I did not make myself , I know I have existence , and I search in things for a cause and find none . Can I find out the Almighty to perfection ? No , answers Paine , He is incomprehensible . But ...
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... find a continuing tension between the ideas of Voltaire and the ideas of Rousseau ; or , more particularly , we find that Twain in his maturer years takes over the notion of Swift , who said he hated and detested that animal called man ...
... find a continuing tension between the ideas of Voltaire and the ideas of Rousseau ; or , more particularly , we find that Twain in his maturer years takes over the notion of Swift , who said he hated and detested that animal called man ...
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... find out his true vocation until he was nearing forty . If Frost had died when A Boy's Will was published , he would have been catalogued as a minor lyric poet . The fact that North of Boston came out when he was forty gives a kind of ...
... find out his true vocation until he was nearing forty . If Frost had died when A Boy's Will was published , he would have been catalogued as a minor lyric poet . The fact that North of Boston came out when he was forty gives a kind of ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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