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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... called the poet of nature and he has been called the poet of death . Death occupies an uncommonly large space in the 13,000 lines that he wrote , but the phrase " a poet of nature " requires considerable defining . His verse is filled ...
... called the poet of nature and he has been called the poet of death . Death occupies an uncommonly large space in the 13,000 lines that he wrote , but the phrase " a poet of nature " requires considerable defining . His verse is filled ...
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... called civilized life social virtue ought to rest upon the concept of Christian brotherhood - and in Notions of an Ameri- can ( 1828 ) Cooper unexpectedly goes out of his way to pay a tribute to New England in this regard ; but in the ...
... called civilized life social virtue ought to rest upon the concept of Christian brotherhood - and in Notions of an Ameri- can ( 1828 ) Cooper unexpectedly goes out of his way to pay a tribute to New England in this regard ; but in the ...
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... called " Design , " pictures a fat white spider holding up a white moth on a white flower called heal - all , concluding : What had that flower to do with being white , The wayside blue and innocent heal - all ? What brought the kindred ...
... called " Design , " pictures a fat white spider holding up a white moth on a white flower called heal - all , concluding : What had that flower to do with being white , The wayside blue and innocent heal - all ? What brought the kindred ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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