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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... America , the influence of the Bible on American literature , religion as a theme in poetry , the religious novel in the United States , and so on , and these are often valuable . But we must distinguish between information about ...
... America , the influence of the Bible on American literature , religion as a theme in poetry , the religious novel in the United States , and so on , and these are often valuable . But we must distinguish between information about ...
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... American landscape was a rela- tively late development . What seems to me the first formal American landscape in literature did not appear in print until Jefferson described the confluence of the Potomac and the Shenandoah in his Notes ...
... American landscape was a rela- tively late development . What seems to me the first formal American landscape in literature did not appear in print until Jefferson described the confluence of the Potomac and the Shenandoah in his Notes ...
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... American writ- ing ? There is no simple answer . We have had American plays about saints and martyrs , but these have always a historical air . For Dante politics , philosophy , history , and theology were parts of one great , universal ...
... American writ- ing ? There is no simple answer . We have had American plays about saints and martyrs , but these have always a historical air . For Dante politics , philosophy , history , and theology were parts of one great , universal ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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