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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... West - running Brook " the backward - sloping wave can be interpreted as man's partial control of nature , this is followed almost immediately by two poems , " The Last Mowing " and " The Birthplace , " pic- tures of abandoned farms ...
... West - running Brook " the backward - sloping wave can be interpreted as man's partial control of nature , this is followed almost immediately by two poems , " The Last Mowing " and " The Birthplace , " pic- tures of abandoned farms ...
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... West - Running Brook , published in 1928 , the poet turns his back resolutely upon outer space and stands firmly on this planet , since no anticipated cosmic catastrophe ever occurs : We may as well go patiently on with our life , And ...
... West - Running Brook , published in 1928 , the poet turns his back resolutely upon outer space and stands firmly on this planet , since no anticipated cosmic catastrophe ever occurs : We may as well go patiently on with our life , And ...
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... West - running Brook " ( poem ) , 127 ; West - Run- ning Brook , 132 , 141 ; A Witness Tree , 133 Girard , Stephen , 21 Khayyám , Omar , 114 150 INDEX.
... West - running Brook " ( poem ) , 127 ; West - Run- ning Brook , 132 , 141 ; A Witness Tree , 133 Girard , Stephen , 21 Khayyám , Omar , 114 150 INDEX.
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Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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