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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... kings . Kings have laid the world in blood and ashes . The history of all monarchies he calls a disgustful picture of human wretchedness , and the accidental respite of a few years ' repose . The first king was a thief . Bands of ...
... kings . Kings have laid the world in blood and ashes . The history of all monarchies he calls a disgustful picture of human wretchedness , and the accidental respite of a few years ' repose . The first king was a thief . Bands of ...
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... King George . Why not a fresh start in religion ? Why not a new form of faith ? A republican religion ? Paine was not alone . The redoubtable Ethan Allen of Ver- mont published in 1784 a clumsy book entitled Reason the Only Oracle of ...
... King George . Why not a fresh start in religion ? Why not a new form of faith ? A republican religion ? Paine was not alone . The redoubtable Ethan Allen of Ver- mont published in 1784 a clumsy book entitled Reason the Only Oracle of ...
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... kings , so that A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court was written among other purposes to ridicule monarchy ; but Twain gloried in the attention paid him by William II of Ger- many , the Prince of Wales , and the Austrian royal ...
... kings , so that A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court was written among other purposes to ridicule monarchy ; but Twain gloried in the attention paid him by William II of Ger- many , the Prince of Wales , and the Austrian royal ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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