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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... poet's seventieth birthday in 1864 Ralph Waldo Emerson said : ... When I read the verses of popular American and English poets , I often think that they appear to have gone into the art galleries and to have seen pictures of mountains ...
... poet's seventieth birthday in 1864 Ralph Waldo Emerson said : ... When I read the verses of popular American and English poets , I often think that they appear to have gone into the art galleries and to have seen pictures of mountains ...
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... poet hopes , guide him . This is but vaguely a Christian concept , if , indeed , it be Christian at all . It would appear that Bryant was religious by ... poet's philosophy unless some deeper meaning is hinted at 30 LANDSCAPE AS RELIGION.
... poet hopes , guide him . This is but vaguely a Christian concept , if , indeed , it be Christian at all . It would appear that Bryant was religious by ... poet's philosophy unless some deeper meaning is hinted at 30 LANDSCAPE AS RELIGION.
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... poet . The fact that North of Boston came out when he was forty gives a kind of uniformity to all his later work , as if it were ... poet's father , William P. Frost , told his mother , Isabelle Moodie : " You are a Christian - I am not ...
... poet . The fact that North of Boston came out when he was forty gives a kind of uniformity to all his later work , as if it were ... poet's father , William P. Frost , told his mother , Isabelle Moodie : " You are a Christian - I am not ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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