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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... look only through the eyes of the Yankee in Emerson , you look through the eyes of the man who served as Carlyle's literary agent , bought real estate in Concord , and gave young Americans a great deal of sound advice on how to get 60 ...
... look only through the eyes of the Yankee in Emerson , you look through the eyes of the man who served as Carlyle's literary agent , bought real estate in Concord , and gave young Americans a great deal of sound advice on how to get 60 ...
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... looks comfortable and cozy in comparison with ours . Many poets refuse to look into the abyss ; others are alternately fascinated and repelled by the dimension of ghastliness . Frost's attitude seems to be of this odi et amo kind . He ...
... looks comfortable and cozy in comparison with ours . Many poets refuse to look into the abyss ; others are alternately fascinated and repelled by the dimension of ghastliness . Frost's attitude seems to be of this odi et amo kind . He ...
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... look or tone Beware of coming too much to the surface , And using for apparel what was meant To be the curtain of the inmost soul . At first , in reading this poem , one is tempted to murmur some- thing about the doctrine of election ...
... look or tone Beware of coming too much to the surface , And using for apparel what was meant To be the curtain of the inmost soul . At first , in reading this poem , one is tempted to murmur some- thing about the doctrine of election ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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