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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... immortality of the soul Emer- son of course thinks that man , the infinite being , is immortal , but he says very little about the continuity of personality in an afterlife , which is for most believers what is meant by immor- tality ...
... immortality of the soul Emer- son of course thinks that man , the infinite being , is immortal , but he says very little about the continuity of personality in an afterlife , which is for most believers what is meant by immor- tality ...
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... immortality , as in this poem of 1881 : As at thy portals also death , Entering thy sovereign , dim , illimitable grounds , To memories of my mother , to the divine blending , maternity , To her , buried and gone , yet buried not , gone ...
... immortality , as in this poem of 1881 : As at thy portals also death , Entering thy sovereign , dim , illimitable grounds , To memories of my mother , to the divine blending , maternity , To her , buried and gone , yet buried not , gone ...
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... immortality , and the soul , the index is limited to specific religious sects and movements . It also omits the names of persons referred to casually that do not necessarily appertain to a particular set of ideas , theology , or like ...
... immortality , and the soul , the index is limited to specific religious sects and movements . It also omits the names of persons referred to casually that do not necessarily appertain to a particular set of ideas , theology , or like ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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