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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... experience : Crossing a bare common , in snow puddles , at twilight , under a clouded sky , without having in my ... experiences and records that of Christ as being one among many . Even though the teaching of Christ comes closest to ...
... experience : Crossing a bare common , in snow puddles , at twilight , under a clouded sky , without having in my ... experiences and records that of Christ as being one among many . Even though the teaching of Christ comes closest to ...
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... experience in time or in eternity . In the first place Leaves of Grass is obviously autobiographical in the ... experiences in Brooklyn or Manhattan , as a swimmer in Long Island Sound , as a car- penter building houses , and so on ...
... experience in time or in eternity . In the first place Leaves of Grass is obviously autobiographical in the ... experiences in Brooklyn or Manhattan , as a swimmer in Long Island Sound , as a car- penter building houses , and so on ...
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... experiences that he should or could have had but that perhaps never occurred . This again is nothing novel in ... experience , can be simultaneously felt only by such a type figure . This figure toils westward with the pioneers ...
... experiences that he should or could have had but that perhaps never occurred . This again is nothing novel in ... experience , can be simultaneously felt only by such a type figure . This figure toils westward with the pioneers ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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