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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... literary classic . In fact , American literature has never produced a great religious book in the sense that the Divine Comedy is a great Catholic masterpiece , Paradise Lost a great Protestant master- piece , and the Book of Job a ...
... literary classic . In fact , American literature has never produced a great religious book in the sense that the Divine Comedy is a great Catholic masterpiece , Paradise Lost a great Protestant master- piece , and the Book of Job a ...
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... literary masterpiece . These conflicts were , apparently , built into him . The genial humorist of William Dean Howells ' My Mark Twain , printed in 1910 , is one side of him , and the tortured per- sonality of Justin Kaplan's ...
... literary masterpiece . These conflicts were , apparently , built into him . The genial humorist of William Dean Howells ' My Mark Twain , printed in 1910 , is one side of him , and the tortured per- sonality of Justin Kaplan's ...
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... literary art . There are of course in the nineteenth century and in this one some " Christian " au- thors , just as there are Jewish authors . But if one accepts the general canon of our literary classics , together with more recent ...
... literary art . There are of course in the nineteenth century and in this one some " Christian " au- thors , just as there are Jewish authors . But if one accepts the general canon of our literary classics , together with more recent ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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