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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... turn , however , to the treatment of landscape by certain writers in America during the first half of the nineteenth century and to the implications of these treatments for religious belief . Were there time , I should at this point ...
... turn , however , to the treatment of landscape by certain writers in America during the first half of the nineteenth century and to the implications of these treatments for religious belief . Were there time , I should at this point ...
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... the university . But Channing , remarkable man that he was , was no such pro- found scholar as Theodore Parker . All he was doing was , in a sense , to turn their own weapons of rational analysis 56 TRANSCENDENTALISM AND EMERSON.
... the university . But Channing , remarkable man that he was , was no such pro- found scholar as Theodore Parker . All he was doing was , in a sense , to turn their own weapons of rational analysis 56 TRANSCENDENTALISM AND EMERSON.
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... turn subsumed under , or fused into , a universal syn- thesis that Whitman thinks of sometimes as personal immortal ... turns this upside down and assumes that the cosmic will is not blind but purposeful . If one waives any attempt at ...
... turn subsumed under , or fused into , a universal syn- thesis that Whitman thinks of sometimes as personal immortal ... turns this upside down and assumes that the cosmic will is not blind but purposeful . If one waives any attempt at ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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