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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... Steeple Bush ( 1947 ) , and In the Clearing ( 1962 ) , always with the same am- biguity of resolution . In that amazing address to a poet of the time of Charlemagne called " The Lesson for Today " " about whether the ninth or the ...
... Steeple Bush ( 1947 ) , and In the Clearing ( 1962 ) , always with the same am- biguity of resolution . In that amazing address to a poet of the time of Charlemagne called " The Lesson for Today " " about whether the ninth or the ...
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... Steeple Bush , we find this curiously ambiguous metaphor : Religious faith is a most filling vapor . It swirls occluded in us under tight Compression to uplift us out of weight— As in those buoyant bird bones thin as paper , To give ...
... Steeple Bush , we find this curiously ambiguous metaphor : Religious faith is a most filling vapor . It swirls occluded in us under tight Compression to uplift us out of weight— As in those buoyant bird bones thin as paper , To give ...
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... a retired prizefighter or Bouncer , bouncing us forever out.1 1 The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer ( New York , 1963 ) , P. 188 . And a poem in Steeple Bush , " The Fear 136 THE COSMIC LONELINESS OF ROBERT FROST.
... a retired prizefighter or Bouncer , bouncing us forever out.1 1 The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer ( New York , 1963 ) , P. 188 . And a poem in Steeple Bush , " The Fear 136 THE COSMIC LONELINESS OF ROBERT FROST.
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