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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... England . The pattern of religion in the rebellious colonies be- came more and more kaleidoscopic , while a new organizing ele- ment appeared in the growth of rationalism . Rationalism had been increased by contacts between colonial ...
... England . The pattern of religion in the rebellious colonies be- came more and more kaleidoscopic , while a new organizing ele- ment appeared in the growth of rationalism . Rationalism had been increased by contacts between colonial ...
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... England and receiving nothing beyond a grammar school education , he became the greatest propagandist in American literary history . His style shows what can be done with our language when it is written by what Walt Whitman would call a ...
... England and receiving nothing beyond a grammar school education , he became the greatest propagandist in American literary history . His style shows what can be done with our language when it is written by what Walt Whitman would call a ...
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... denounce religious fanaticism as in the " Torquemada ” of Tales of the Wayside Inn , and Puritan cruelty as in the two New England Tragedies that conclude his ambitious The Divine Tragedy . 74 THE COSMIC OPTIMISM OF WALT WHITMAN.
... denounce religious fanaticism as in the " Torquemada ” of Tales of the Wayside Inn , and Puritan cruelty as in the two New England Tragedies that conclude his ambitious The Divine Tragedy . 74 THE COSMIC OPTIMISM OF WALT WHITMAN.
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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