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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... look behind them to see what Paine really had in mind . Paine's explanation of things as they are divides into two sharply contrasted paradigms of truth and error . On the one hand is the rational universe , creation of a rational deity ...
... look behind them to see what Paine really had in mind . Paine's explanation of things as they are divides into two sharply contrasted paradigms of truth and error . On the one hand is the rational universe , creation of a rational deity ...
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... look at a poem like " Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood , " we discover that the sick heart of man can be partially healed by the calm of nature . If we read Bryant's " Hymn to Death , " the lesson is that in the equality of dying ...
... look at a poem like " Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood , " we discover that the sick heart of man can be partially healed by the calm of nature . If we read Bryant's " Hymn to Death , " the lesson is that in the equality of dying ...
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... look only through the eyes of the Yankee in Emerson , you look through the eyes of the man who served as Carlyle's literary agent , bought real estate in Concord , and gave young Americans a great deal of sound advice on how to get 60 ...
... look only through the eyes of the Yankee in Emerson , you look through the eyes of the man who served as Carlyle's literary agent , bought real estate in Concord , and gave young Americans a great deal of sound advice on how to get 60 ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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