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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... Nature in all these novels save The Pioneers is the un- spoiled nature of Bryant . Leatherstocking prefers the book of nature to any printed word . When in The Last of the Mohicans David Gamut pro- poses the Calvinist doctrine of ...
... Nature in all these novels save The Pioneers is the un- spoiled nature of Bryant . Leatherstocking prefers the book of nature to any printed word . When in The Last of the Mohicans David Gamut pro- poses the Calvinist doctrine of ...
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... nature in Frost is prin- cipally the male animal . III What nature does man confront ? Nature in the first instance is simply the earthly environment of man in the temperate zone -Frost never writes about the tropics and seldom about ...
... nature in Frost is prin- cipally the male animal . III What nature does man confront ? Nature in the first instance is simply the earthly environment of man in the temperate zone -Frost never writes about the tropics and seldom about ...
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... nature : thus far shall you go and no farther . Frost cannot agree with Wordsworth that nature never did betray the heart that loved her . As the years went by , as his personal sorrows accumulated around him and the poet came to be ...
... nature : thus far shall you go and no farther . Frost cannot agree with Wordsworth that nature never did betray the heart that loved her . As the years went by , as his personal sorrows accumulated around him and the poet came to be ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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