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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... Bryant to accomplish . II At a dinner honoring the poet's seventieth birthday in 1864 Ralph Waldo Emerson said : ... When I read the verses of popular American and English poets , I often think that they appear to have gone into the art ...
... Bryant to accomplish . II At a dinner honoring the poet's seventieth birthday in 1864 Ralph Waldo Emerson said : ... When I read the verses of popular American and English poets , I often think that they appear to have gone into the art ...
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... Bryant this change was made before his death , and his poems are the record that in his life he passed from the stoic into the Christian . This is true enough in its way ; the question is how much of Bryant's view is stoic and how much ...
... Bryant this change was made before his death , and his poems are the record that in his life he passed from the stoic into the Christian . This is true enough in its way ; the question is how much of Bryant's view is stoic and how much ...
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... Bryant's questing ends in piety ( in the Christian sense ) , or with me that it goes back to a more primitive and persistent philosophy of stoicism , one thing is clear : Bryant's verse de- mands a more searching analysis than it has ...
... Bryant's questing ends in piety ( in the Christian sense ) , or with me that it goes back to a more primitive and persistent philosophy of stoicism , one thing is clear : Bryant's verse de- mands a more searching analysis than it has ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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