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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... Steeple Bush ( 1947 ) , and In the Clearing ( 1962 ) , always with the same am- biguity of resolution . In that amazing address to a poet of the time of Charlemagne called " The Lesson for Today " " about whether the ninth or the ...
... Steeple Bush ( 1947 ) , and In the Clearing ( 1962 ) , always with the same am- biguity of resolution . In that amazing address to a poet of the time of Charlemagne called " The Lesson for Today " " about whether the ninth or the ...
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... Steeple Bush , " The Fear of God , " turns on no Christian conception : If you should rise from Nowhere up to Somewhere , From being No One up to being Someone , Be sure to keep repeating to yourself You owe it to an arbitrary god Whose ...
... Steeple Bush , " The Fear of God , " turns on no Christian conception : If you should rise from Nowhere up to Somewhere , From being No One up to being Someone , Be sure to keep repeating to yourself You owe it to an arbitrary god Whose ...
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... Steeple Bush , 128 , 133 , 134 , 137 ; " The Sub- verted Flower , " 123 ; " Trial by Existence , " 129–30 ; " The Vantage Point , " 125-26 ; " West - running Brook " ( poem ) , 127 ; West - Run- ning Brook , 132 , 141 ; A Witness Tree ...
... Steeple Bush , 128 , 133 , 134 , 137 ; " The Sub- verted Flower , " 123 ; " Trial by Existence , " 129–30 ; " The Vantage Point , " 125-26 ; " West - running Brook " ( poem ) , 127 ; West - Run- ning Brook , 132 , 141 ; A Witness Tree ...
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Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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