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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... come unbidden . Emerson records such an experience : Crossing a bare common , in snow puddles , at twilight , under a ... comes closest to being the perfect teaching , Emerson held that equally valid intuitions of divine meaning were ...
... come unbidden . Emerson records such an experience : Crossing a bare common , in snow puddles , at twilight , under a ... comes closest to being the perfect teaching , Emerson held that equally valid intuitions of divine meaning were ...
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... comes , and this is the second way , in moments of ecstasy that can occasionally be in- duced by an intense identification with objects and other per- sons but that more commonly comes without our bidding . Both in " Song of Myself ...
... comes , and this is the second way , in moments of ecstasy that can occasionally be in- duced by an intense identification with objects and other per- sons but that more commonly comes without our bidding . Both in " Song of Myself ...
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... comes to thank Job for having helped Him to Establish once for all the principle There's no connection man can reason out Between his just deserts and what he gets . " My thanks are to you , " He says , for releasing Me From moral ...
... comes to thank Job for having helped Him to Establish once for all the principle There's no connection man can reason out Between his just deserts and what he gets . " My thanks are to you , " He says , for releasing Me From moral ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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