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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... or elected , and to decide this grave question you have to know whether the grace of God is working within you . It was therefore possible to be both a Calvinist and a mystic ; and Jonathan Edwards 51 TRANSCENDENTALISM AND EMERSON.
... or elected , and to decide this grave question you have to know whether the grace of God is working within you . It was therefore possible to be both a Calvinist and a mystic ; and Jonathan Edwards 51 TRANSCENDENTALISM AND EMERSON.
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... mystic ; and Jonathan Edwards ' Treatise Concerning the Religious Affections , which Emerson knew , and his Images ... mystical rapture of Edwards . In the phrase of Harvey Townsend heaven and earth had now been sundered , and the great ...
... mystic ; and Jonathan Edwards ' Treatise Concerning the Religious Affections , which Emerson knew , and his Images ... mystical rapture of Edwards . In the phrase of Harvey Townsend heaven and earth had now been sundered , and the great ...
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... Mystical identification also occurs in Whitman during some warm summer night , or while bathing in the sea , or in a moment of sexual rapture . It is , however , never the product of alcohol , drugs , or any formal religious ...
... Mystical identification also occurs in Whitman during some warm summer night , or while bathing in the sea , or in a moment of sexual rapture . It is , however , never the product of alcohol , drugs , or any formal religious ...
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