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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... means the acceptance of the idea that there is a God , that He has some regard for His universe , and that the ... mean by " belief " the relation of the individual soul to God in the Western sense of deity . Moreover , the three great ...
... means the acceptance of the idea that there is a God , that He has some regard for His universe , and that the ... mean by " belief " the relation of the individual soul to God in the Western sense of deity . Moreover , the three great ...
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... means largely and means well . Christianity becomes more often a symbol of process than the cause of it ; and for that reason , though the man Bryant may have passed from the stoic into the Christian , the poetry follows no such uniform ...
... means largely and means well . Christianity becomes more often a symbol of process than the cause of it ; and for that reason , though the man Bryant may have passed from the stoic into the Christian , the poetry follows no such uniform ...
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... means intensely and means well - virtue , crime , genius , idiocy , men , women , children , all of what used to be known as ani- mated nature , the geological ages , history in the largest sense , the universe itself - it follows in ...
... means intensely and means well - virtue , crime , genius , idiocy , men , women , children , all of what used to be known as ani- mated nature , the geological ages , history in the largest sense , the universe itself - it follows in ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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