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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... philosophy , and Dwight , after he became president of Yale , repeated every four years a series of sermons directed at the undergraduates , dis- courses that were posthumously published in five volumes as Theology Explained and ...
... philosophy , and Dwight , after he became president of Yale , repeated every four years a series of sermons directed at the undergraduates , dis- courses that were posthumously published in five volumes as Theology Explained and ...
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... philosophy unless some deeper meaning is hinted at or stated . For example , we cannot pass beyond the enumeration of objects in one of Irving's landscapes unless or until a larger con- text is implied . Bryant supplies this religious ...
... philosophy unless some deeper meaning is hinted at or stated . For example , we cannot pass beyond the enumeration of objects in one of Irving's landscapes unless or until a larger con- text is implied . Bryant supplies this religious ...
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... philosophy at second hand from French writers like Cousin and British writers like Cole- ridge . Of Cousin's philosophy , however , Emerson later said there was an optical illusion in it ; and when Emerson visited Coleridge in 1833 ...
... philosophy at second hand from French writers like Cousin and British writers like Cole- ridge . Of Cousin's philosophy , however , Emerson later said there was an optical illusion in it ; and when Emerson visited Coleridge in 1833 ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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