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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... merely liberalizing their views and avoiding the errors of a hereditary aristocracy . On the other hand , in The Chainbearer Cooper defines a gentleman without much reference to Chris- tianity ; for example , he is truthful out of self ...
... merely liberalizing their views and avoiding the errors of a hereditary aristocracy . On the other hand , in The Chainbearer Cooper defines a gentleman without much reference to Chris- tianity ; for example , he is truthful out of self ...
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... merely theoretical problem . They also thrust him opportunely into the larger world of nineteenth - cen- tury ... mere record of revelation to a dead and vanished generation ? To establish this view he had , like Channing , to abandon ...
... merely theoretical problem . They also thrust him opportunely into the larger world of nineteenth - cen- tury ... mere record of revelation to a dead and vanished generation ? To establish this view he had , like Channing , to abandon ...
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... merely one chord in an ever ascending symphony , a mere passing note , to change the figure , in the vast , affirmative composition , lyric and intense , we call Being . But there is one aspect of evil , or at least what commonly passes ...
... merely one chord in an ever ascending symphony , a mere passing note , to change the figure , in the vast , affirmative composition , lyric and intense , we call Being . But there is one aspect of evil , or at least what commonly passes ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
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Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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