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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... Robert Frost . Copyright 1923 , 1928 , 1930 , 1934 , 1939 , 1945 , 1947 by Holt , Rinehart and Win- ston , Inc. Copyright 1936 , 1942 , 1951 , 1956 , 1958 , 1962 by Robert Frost . Copyright © 1964 , 1967 by Lesley Frost Ballantine ...
... Robert Frost . Copyright 1923 , 1928 , 1930 , 1934 , 1939 , 1945 , 1947 by Holt , Rinehart and Win- ston , Inc. Copyright 1936 , 1942 , 1951 , 1956 , 1958 , 1962 by Robert Frost . Copyright © 1964 , 1967 by Lesley Frost Ballantine ...
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... Robert Frost , beneath the plain surface of whose poems there lurks what somebody once called the most mischievous mind in America . One can find as many interpretations of Frost as there are com- mentators , and I am by no means ...
... Robert Frost , beneath the plain surface of whose poems there lurks what somebody once called the most mischievous mind in America . One can find as many interpretations of Frost as there are com- mentators , and I am by no means ...
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... Robert Frost , who hints that spirit may be shot forward to some distant goal further than target ever showed or shone.2 2 This poem , allegorically taken , and a parenthetical expression in Frost's introduction to an edition of King ...
... Robert Frost , who hints that spirit may be shot forward to some distant goal further than target ever showed or shone.2 2 This poem , allegorically taken , and a parenthetical expression in Frost's introduction to an edition of King ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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