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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... never - ending Flood of Years Among 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 ...
... never - ending Flood of Years Among 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 ...
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... never read but in one , and the words that are written there are too simple and too plain to need such schooling . . . . ' Tis open before your eyes . . . and he who owns it , is not niggard of its use . I have heard it said , that ...
... never read but in one , and the words that are written there are too simple and too plain to need such schooling . . . . ' Tis open before your eyes . . . and he who owns it , is not niggard of its use . I have heard it said , that ...
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... never know the secret of his inner life . Though he was the first great celebrant of sex in American literature , we can discover nothing about his sexual experiences , but only that he never married , that he once boasted of having ...
... never know the secret of his inner life . Though he was the first great celebrant of sex in American literature , we can discover nothing about his sexual experiences , but only that he never married , that he once boasted of having ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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