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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... divine in the nature of Jesus , a refutation the more necessary , he thought , be- cause he wished to differentiate liberal Unitarianism in America from the extreme rationalist position of Unitarianism in England . He asserted that ...
... divine in the nature of Jesus , a refutation the more necessary , he thought , be- cause he wished to differentiate liberal Unitarianism in America from the extreme rationalist position of Unitarianism in England . He asserted that ...
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... divine . A nobly phrased passage toward the end of Emerson's little book on Nature sums up this part of his teaching : The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man . It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God , a ...
... divine . A nobly phrased passage toward the end of Emerson's little book on Nature sums up this part of his teaching : The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man . It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God , a ...
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... divine blending , maternity , To her , buried and gone , yet buried not , gone not from me , ( I see again the calm benignant face fresh and beautiful still , I sit by the form in the coffin , I kiss and kiss convulsively again the ...
... divine blending , maternity , To her , buried and gone , yet buried not , gone not from me , ( I see again the calm benignant face fresh and beautiful still , I sit by the form in the coffin , I kiss and kiss convulsively again the ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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