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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Page 81
... Whitman's days as a newspaper editor , when the editorial " we " was one thing and the private individuality of the ... Whitman between the speaker addressing his soul and the soul speaking as another " I " goes a little beyond the ...
... Whitman's days as a newspaper editor , when the editorial " we " was one thing and the private individuality of the ... Whitman between the speaker addressing his soul and the soul speaking as another " I " goes a little beyond the ...
Page 82
... Whitman to address the immortal Walt Whitman , for the man living directly to speak to and of the soul indirectly ; the difficulty is that in this respect as in others Whitman is inconsistent . All we can do is to note the distinction ...
... Whitman to address the immortal Walt Whitman , for the man living directly to speak to and of the soul indirectly ; the difficulty is that in this respect as in others Whitman is inconsistent . All we can do is to note the distinction ...
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... Whitman , it is omitted from this catalogue . Since Whitman will not admit that evil is other than a strand in the great web of being , the concept of inherited sin — indeed , the concept of sin itself - for him has no theological ...
... Whitman , it is omitted from this catalogue . Since Whitman will not admit that evil is other than a strand in the great web of being , the concept of inherited sin — indeed , the concept of sin itself - for him has no theological ...
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