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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... Christian . Bryant composed a number of hymns , many of his other poems contain evidence of Christian values , he believed in the immortality of the soul , and , as I have indicated , though a Unitarian , he accepted the divinity of ...
... Christian . Bryant composed a number of hymns , many of his other poems contain evidence of Christian values , he believed in the immortality of the soul , and , as I have indicated , though a Unitarian , he accepted the divinity of ...
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... Christian " nature poet " as Whittier or Longfellow is . In- deed , if one is to save this melancholy spirit for Christian poetry , one is almost tempted to define him as a Christian who fell into the heresy of Manichaeism - that the ...
... Christian " nature poet " as Whittier or Longfellow is . In- deed , if one is to save this melancholy spirit for Christian poetry , one is almost tempted to define him as a Christian who fell into the heresy of Manichaeism - that the ...
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... Christian fact to Christian idealism . Like Emerson he thought the best thing a Christian could do was to abandon Christianity altogether . Twain's indictment of cruelty , past , present , and to come , is an indictment possible only to ...
... Christian fact to Christian idealism . Like Emerson he thought the best thing a Christian could do was to abandon Christianity altogether . Twain's indictment of cruelty , past , present , and to come , is an indictment possible only to ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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