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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... force the definition of which nobody can give and the boundaries of which nobody can determine . It is probably true ... forces that undermined the Scottish Common Sense philosophy in the colleges and laissez - faire economic theory in 1 ...
... force the definition of which nobody can give and the boundaries of which nobody can determine . It is probably true ... forces that undermined the Scottish Common Sense philosophy in the colleges and laissez - faire economic theory in 1 ...
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... force in Amer- ican writing . Even the agnostic Theodore Dreiser , with all his chemisms and his determinism , ends his career with The Stoic , a novel of mysticism . And a book like The Octopus of Frank Norris includes as a major ...
... force in Amer- ican writing . Even the agnostic Theodore Dreiser , with all his chemisms and his determinism , ends his career with The Stoic , a novel of mysticism . And a book like The Octopus of Frank Norris includes as a major ...
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... force . In the Harvard yard a group of young poets , among them Edwin Arlington Robinson , George Santayana , and Trumbull Stickney , took refuge in either Schopenhauerian despair , an austere stoicism , or a kind of des- perate ...
... force . In the Harvard yard a group of young poets , among them Edwin Arlington Robinson , George Santayana , and Trumbull Stickney , took refuge in either Schopenhauerian despair , an austere stoicism , or a kind of des- perate ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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