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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... death . Death occupies an uncommonly large space in the 13,000 lines that he wrote , but the phrase “ a poet of nature " requires considerable defining . His verse is filled with specific mentions or descriptions of plants , trees ...
... death . Death occupies an uncommonly large space in the 13,000 lines that he wrote , but the phrase “ a poet of nature " requires considerable defining . His verse is filled with specific mentions or descriptions of plants , trees ...
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... death . In a real sense Whitman is the great poet of death . What about this great enigma ? It haunts Leaves of Grass in all its editions and all its phases . It is not only the theme of " When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed , " it ...
... death . In a real sense Whitman is the great poet of death . What about this great enigma ? It haunts Leaves of Grass in all its editions and all its phases . It is not only the theme of " When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed , " it ...
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... death . But life and death are in turn subsumed under , or fused into , a universal syn- thesis that Whitman thinks of sometimes as personal immortal- ity and sometimes as reabsorption into an affirmative cosmic process that is ...
... death . But life and death are in turn subsumed under , or fused into , a universal syn- thesis that Whitman thinks of sometimes as personal immortal- ity and sometimes as reabsorption into an affirmative cosmic process that is ...
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