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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... scientific . John Winthrop's History of New England - really a history of the Massachusetts Bay colony - is studded with passages about God's providence . Here are two : Two little girls of the governor's family were sitting under a ...
... scientific . John Winthrop's History of New England - really a history of the Massachusetts Bay colony - is studded with passages about God's providence . Here are two : Two little girls of the governor's family were sitting under a ...
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... scientific speculation than it seems to be today . I trust I have not dwelt unduly upon some of the incon- sistencies in a writer who never set out to be consistent and who , in fact , in one celebrated passage , repudiated consistency ...
... scientific speculation than it seems to be today . I trust I have not dwelt unduly upon some of the incon- sistencies in a writer who never set out to be consistent and who , in fact , in one celebrated passage , repudiated consistency ...
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... scientific theory , his annual progress among the universities led to his picking up a great deal of information about modern physical and astronomical theory . Where other poets have been shaped by philosophical theory , Frost has been ...
... scientific theory , his annual progress among the universities led to his picking up a great deal of information about modern physical and astronomical theory . Where other poets have been shaped by philosophical theory , Frost has been ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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