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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... poem . There we read that America has a chance to write a newer page in the great record of the world , but the last lines in the poem are this dark ambiguity : Shall it be fairer ? Fear and friendly Hope , And Envy , watch the issue ...
... poem . There we read that America has a chance to write a newer page in the great record of the world , but the last lines in the poem are this dark ambiguity : Shall it be fairer ? Fear and friendly Hope , And Envy , watch the issue ...
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... poem is called " In Hardwood Groves " and meditates on the fall of the leaf ; only as the leaves fall , decay , and enrich the soil , can the spring flowers be born , and the poem concludes : However it is in some other world I know ...
... poem is called " In Hardwood Groves " and meditates on the fall of the leaf ; only as the leaves fall , decay , and enrich the soil , can the spring flowers be born , and the poem concludes : However it is in some other world I know ...
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... poem in the works of Robert Frost that assumes Christian theology is the nameless dedicatory poem to In the Clearing . In this the Incarnation is regarded as proof that spirit enters flesh , charging into earth in birth after birth ...
... poem in the works of Robert Frost that assumes Christian theology is the nameless dedicatory poem to In the Clearing . In this the Incarnation is regarded as proof that spirit enters flesh , charging into earth in birth after birth ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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