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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... Leaves of Grass , a title that some- times means a particular book and sometimes all of his poetical production , a work he constantly revised and added to 79 THE COSMIC OPTIMISM OF WALT WHITMAN.
... Leaves of Grass , a title that some- times means a particular book and sometimes all of his poetical production , a work he constantly revised and added to 79 THE COSMIC OPTIMISM OF WALT WHITMAN.
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... Leaves of Grass may mean any one of four or five several existences or bundles of experience in time or in eternity . In the first place Leaves of Grass is obviously autobiographical in the customary sense . Walt Whitman lived on fish ...
... Leaves of Grass may mean any one of four or five several existences or bundles of experience in time or in eternity . In the first place Leaves of Grass is obviously autobiographical in the customary sense . Walt Whitman lived on fish ...
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... Leaves of Grass . Yet the poem is almost totally with- out conventional theological terminology . God is an emotional , not a logical , concept , and Whitman does not even attempt definition : And I say to mankind , Be not curious about ...
... Leaves of Grass . Yet the poem is almost totally with- out conventional theological terminology . God is an emotional , not a logical , concept , and Whitman does not even attempt definition : And I say to mankind , Be not curious about ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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