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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... the impressions left on his imagination by the landscapes of these novels - the endless forests , the boundless prairies , the waters , the skies , storm and sunshine , the fertility of unspoiled nature . In these 43 LANDSCAPE AS RELIGION.
... the impressions left on his imagination by the landscapes of these novels - the endless forests , the boundless prairies , the waters , the skies , storm and sunshine , the fertility of unspoiled nature . In these 43 LANDSCAPE AS RELIGION.
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... imagination , his intellect . Yet on another occasion Twain informed Paine that anybody who knew anything knew that there was not a single life that was ever lived that was worth living . The assumption that man's imagination marks his ...
... imagination , his intellect . Yet on another occasion Twain informed Paine that anybody who knew anything knew that there was not a single life that was ever lived that was worth living . The assumption that man's imagination marks his ...
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... imagination goes careening off beyond the farthest constellations . The peal of the clocks speaks bravely for the clock of the universe , a universe so immense even distant exploding stars seem stationary to us . This inhuman machine ...
... imagination goes careening off beyond the farthest constellations . The peal of the clocks speaks bravely for the clock of the universe , a universe so immense even distant exploding stars seem stationary to us . This inhuman machine ...
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Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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