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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... Clemens and Mark Twain , published in 1966 , is another . Such complexities have to be sorted out , and there is an in- evitable tendency to arrange the components of Twain's per- sonality in pairs , or , as Emerson would say ...
... Clemens and Mark Twain , published in 1966 , is another . Such complexities have to be sorted out , and there is an in- evitable tendency to arrange the components of Twain's per- sonality in pairs , or , as Emerson would say ...
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... Clemens in the afterlife unless there was some heaven for her to go to . Yet Twain had earlier declared that if God had prepared such a place for us and really wanted us to know about it , He could have found some better medium of ...
... Clemens in the afterlife unless there was some heaven for her to go to . Yet Twain had earlier declared that if God had prepared such a place for us and really wanted us to know about it , He could have found some better medium of ...
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... Clemens ' boy- hood and his boyhood religion comes from Sam Clemens , the adult writer , so that it is difficult to know how much is true and how much is imagined in his recollections . Young Sam detested Sunday school and church ...
... Clemens ' boy- hood and his boyhood religion comes from Sam Clemens , the adult writer , so that it is difficult to know how much is true and how much is imagined in his recollections . Young Sam detested Sunday school and church ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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