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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... nation - state , and therefore every colony , should have some sort of established church . Thus the Rev. John Cotton wrote : It is better that the commonwealth be fashioned to the setting forth of God's house , which is his church ...
... nation - state , and therefore every colony , should have some sort of established church . Thus the Rev. John Cotton wrote : It is better that the commonwealth be fashioned to the setting forth of God's house , which is his church ...
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... nations , goes on to picture the nations as overwhelmed by the flood of time , regards the past as a silent ocean , a waste of waters , talks about old cities , deserted streets , and the ruin of former cultures , and hints that the ...
... nations , goes on to picture the nations as overwhelmed by the flood of time , regards the past as a silent ocean , a waste of waters , talks about old cities , deserted streets , and the ruin of former cultures , and hints that the ...
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... nation to drag down nation . Here the universe is indifferent . In a third poem , " Misgiving , " the leaves of trees , that all summer had seemed to want to go with the wind , now that autumn comes and they are free to be blown ...
... nation to drag down nation . Here the universe is indifferent . In a third poem , " Misgiving , " the leaves of trees , that all summer had seemed to want to go with the wind , now that autumn comes and they are free to be blown ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
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Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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