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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 30
Page 68
... never wholly solve , whether the central principle in the Emersonian universe is pure spirit or some sort of vitalism commoner in nineteenth - century scientific speculation than it seems to be today . I trust I have not dwelt unduly ...
... never wholly solve , whether the central principle in the Emersonian universe is pure spirit or some sort of vitalism commoner in nineteenth - century scientific speculation than it seems to be today . I trust I have not dwelt unduly ...
Page 80
... never know the secret of his inner life . Though he was the first great celebrant of sex in American literature , we can discover nothing about his sexual experiences , but only that he never married , that he once boasted of having ...
... never know the secret of his inner life . Though he was the first great celebrant of sex in American literature , we can discover nothing about his sexual experiences , but only that he never married , that he once boasted of having ...
Page 126
... never forget : The sound was behind me instead of before , A sleepy sound , but mocking half , As of one who utterly couldn't care . The Demon arose from his wallow to laugh , Brushing the dirt from his eye as he went ; And well I knew ...
... never forget : The sound was behind me instead of before , A sleepy sound , but mocking half , As of one who utterly couldn't care . The Demon arose from his wallow to laugh , Brushing the dirt from his eye as he went ; And well I knew ...
Contents
Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
Copyright | |
5 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Age of Reason American literature animal appears atheism belief Bible Boston Boyg Bryant called Calvinism Calvinist Catholic Channing Christ Christian church Clemens concept Cooper cosmic course culture death deism deity divine doctrine earth ecumenicism Emer Emerson England eternal evil faith H. L. Mencken heaven human idealism imagination immortality Jesus King landscape Leatherstocking Leaves of Grass liberal Unitarianism literary lives Longfellow Louis Untermeyer machine man's mankind Mark Twain Masque means ment mind modern moral sense mysterious mystic nation nature never night novel orthodoxy Paine Paine's passage pessimism philosophy poem poet poetry principles Protestant Protestantism race religion religious Revolution Robert Frost Sandalphon says seems somehow soul spirit Steeple Bush stoic stoicism thee theme theology things Thomas Paine thou thought tion tive Tom Paine tradition transcendentalism transcendentalist trinitarian true universe vast verse Walt Whitman West-Running Brook writing wrote