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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... divine influx flooding the soul and making it aware of its eternal rela- tions , Emerson tacitly assumes that the soul in question is that of an adult . He nowhere explicitly takes the view of Wordsworth in the great " Ode on the ...
... divine influx flooding the soul and making it aware of its eternal rela- tions , Emerson tacitly assumes that the soul in question is that of an adult . He nowhere explicitly takes the view of Wordsworth in the great " Ode on the ...
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... divine ! Love must be still our Master ! till we learn What He can teach us of a woman's heart , We know not Him whose love embraces all . This first appeared in The Poet at the Breakfast - Table serialized in the Atlantic Monthly in ...
... divine ! Love must be still our Master ! till we learn What He can teach us of a woman's heart , We know not Him whose love embraces all . This first appeared in The Poet at the Breakfast - Table serialized in the Atlantic Monthly in ...
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... divine blending , maternity , To her , buried and gone , yet buried not , gone not from me , ( I see again the calm benignant face fresh and beautiful still , I sit by the form in the coffin , I kiss and kiss convulsively again the ...
... divine blending , maternity , To her , buried and gone , yet buried not , gone not from me , ( I see again the calm benignant face fresh and beautiful still , I sit by the form in the coffin , I kiss and kiss convulsively again the ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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