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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... authors take him for an author , and the artists for an artist , And the laborers perceive he could labor with them and love them , No matter what the nation , that he might find his brothers and sisters there . The gentleman of perfect ...
... authors take him for an author , and the artists for an artist , And the laborers perceive he could labor with them and love them , No matter what the nation , that he might find his brothers and sisters there . The gentleman of perfect ...
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... authors writing during the decades of our independence , and paying only enough attention to the colonial period to set the stage . I chose six authors or groups of authors who seemed to me to represent important phases of the relation ...
... authors writing during the decades of our independence , and paying only enough attention to the colonial period to set the stage . I chose six authors or groups of authors who seemed to me to represent important phases of the relation ...
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... authors I have discussed to express a grave concern about the problem of belief in the life of their times . The truth is that no author worth his salt fails to grapple with one or more of the three great themes of theology - God , man ...
... authors I have discussed to express a grave concern about the problem of belief in the life of their times . The truth is that no author worth his salt fails to grapple with one or more of the three great themes of theology - God , man ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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