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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... clear and sometimes blurred , and pass on to a closer examination of the pronoun " I " in his poetry . The " I " in Leaves of Grass may mean any one of four or five several existences or bundles of experience in time or in eternity . In ...
... clear and sometimes blurred , and pass on to a closer examination of the pronoun " I " in his poetry . The " I " in Leaves of Grass may mean any one of four or five several existences or bundles of experience in time or in eternity . In ...
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... clearly defines . God is , however , the ground of being of the universe , which , at some remote point in time He created by arbitrary fiat - or perhaps the fiat was not arbitrary , a ... clear . Mostly it 101 THE PESSIMISM OF MARK TWAIN.
... clearly defines . God is , however , the ground of being of the universe , which , at some remote point in time He created by arbitrary fiat - or perhaps the fiat was not arbitrary , a ... clear . Mostly it 101 THE PESSIMISM OF MARK TWAIN.
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... clear . Mostly it is a universe of mat- ter that works , or is worked upon , by mechanical principles . Yet , as Young Satan informs the boys in The Mysterious Stranger , the universe is a dream , they are dreams and God Himself is a ...
... clear . Mostly it is a universe of mat- ter that works , or is worked upon , by mechanical principles . Yet , as Young Satan informs the boys in The Mysterious Stranger , the universe is a dream , they are dreams and God Himself is a ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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