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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... modern civiliza- tion hastens this dissipation drove both Henry Adams and Brooks Adams into cosmic despair . For them modern life was a struggle between fear and greed in a nightmare out of which , at least for Henry Adams , the only ...
... modern civiliza- tion hastens this dissipation drove both Henry Adams and Brooks Adams into cosmic despair . For them modern life was a struggle between fear and greed in a nightmare out of which , at least for Henry Adams , the only ...
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... modern extension of the story of Jonah . A Masque of Mercy is the weaker of the two . In the first place the Book of Jonah is itself far from impressive , and since what most of us remember of the Jonah story is Jonah's being swallowed ...
... modern extension of the story of Jonah . A Masque of Mercy is the weaker of the two . In the first place the Book of Jonah is itself far from impressive , and since what most of us remember of the Jonah story is Jonah's being swallowed ...
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... modern critic , less religious than Paine , laments the loss of Eden and the failure of inno- cence . But they are both talking ( or writing ) about much the same thing . There are religions without a literature ; I cannot think of a ...
... modern critic , less religious than Paine , laments the loss of Eden and the failure of inno- cence . But they are both talking ( or writing ) about much the same thing . There are religions without a literature ; I cannot think of a ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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