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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... H. L. Mencken , his in- fluential American successor , vigorous , clear , idiosyncratic , and biased . No one has to read one of Paine's sentences twice . But he always has the air of writing in public . Queen Victoria once complained ...
... H. L. Mencken , his in- fluential American successor , vigorous , clear , idiosyncratic , and biased . No one has to read one of Paine's sentences twice . But he always has the air of writing in public . Queen Victoria once complained ...
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... H. L. Mencken and Clarence Darrow , scholars like Philip S. Foner , keep the Paine tradition alive . The existence of organiza- tions like the Free Religious Association of Boston and the Hu- manist Society of America owes something to ...
... H. L. Mencken and Clarence Darrow , scholars like Philip S. Foner , keep the Paine tradition alive . The existence of organiza- tions like the Free Religious Association of Boston and the Hu- manist Society of America owes something to ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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