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 of nature and he has been called the poet of death . Death occupies an uncommonly large space in the 13,000 lines that he wrote , but the phrase " a poet of nature " requires considerable defining . His verse is filled with ...
... poet of nature and he has been called the poet of death . Death occupies an uncommonly large space in the 13,000 lines that he wrote , but the phrase " a poet of nature " requires considerable defining . His verse is filled with ...
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... poet says , Dear city of Cecrops and wilt not thou say , Dear city of Zeus ? 1 It seems to me that Bryant combines , from his reading of classical antiquity , the melancholy and the grandeur of the Virgilian sense for history and the ...
... poet says , Dear city of Cecrops and wilt not thou say , Dear city of Zeus ? 1 It seems to me that Bryant combines , from his reading of classical antiquity , the melancholy and the grandeur of the Virgilian sense for history and the ...
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... poet now hears " the sound of that advancing multitude " which is to populate the prairies and create the Middle West , this is but one phase of an eternal process . Bryant is the poet of elemental forces - death and life , the seasons ...
... poet now hears " the sound of that advancing multitude " which is to populate the prairies and create the Middle West , this is but one phase of an eternal process . Bryant is the poet of elemental forces - death and life , the seasons ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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