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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... Flower , " Frost's solitary poem of physical passion , and it is enigmatic . In this story the male lashes his palm with a flower , assumes that the girl is sexually stirred , but succeeds only in frightening her into motionlessness ...
... Flower , " Frost's solitary poem of physical passion , and it is enigmatic . In this story the male lashes his palm with a flower , assumes that the girl is sexually stirred , but succeeds only in frightening her into motionlessness ...
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... flower called heal - all , concluding : What had that flower to do with being white , The wayside blue and innocent heal - all ? What brought the kindred spider to that height , Then steered the white moth thither in the night ? What ...
... flower called heal - all , concluding : What had that flower to do with being white , The wayside blue and innocent heal - all ? What brought the kindred spider to that height , Then steered the white moth thither in the night ? What ...
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... Flower , " 123 ; " Trial by Existence , " 129-30 ; " The Vantage Point , " 125-26 ; " West - running Brook " ( poem ) , 127 ; West - Run- ning Brook , 132 , 141 ; A Witness Tree , 133 Girard , Stephen , 21 Khayyám , Omar , 114 150 INDEX.
... Flower , " 123 ; " Trial by Existence , " 129-30 ; " The Vantage Point , " 125-26 ; " West - running Brook " ( poem ) , 127 ; West - Run- ning Brook , 132 , 141 ; A Witness Tree , 133 Girard , Stephen , 21 Khayyám , Omar , 114 150 INDEX.
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Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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