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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... fact set apart from the rest of nature by spirit , or , more accurately , by the consciousness of spirit . Emer- son's attribution of spirit to the individual is , however , not quite identical with the theological attribution of a soul ...
... fact set apart from the rest of nature by spirit , or , more accurately , by the consciousness of spirit . Emer- son's attribution of spirit to the individual is , however , not quite identical with the theological attribution of a soul ...
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... fact it would be easy to go through his writings and cull out instance after instance of human generosity , saintliness , self - sacrifice , and humility that totally contradict his officially cynical attitude toward altruism . These ...
... fact it would be easy to go through his writings and cull out instance after instance of human generosity , saintliness , self - sacrifice , and humility that totally contradict his officially cynical attitude toward altruism . These ...
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... fact that North of Boston came out when he was forty gives a kind of uniformity to all his later work , as if it were all one big volume . But the fact also conceals the tortured ways by which Frost slowly fought his way to a philosophy ...
... fact that North of Boston came out when he was forty gives a kind of uniformity to all his later work , as if it were all one big volume . But the fact also conceals the tortured ways by which Frost slowly fought his way to a philosophy ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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