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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... poet hopes , guide him . This is but vaguely a Christian concept , if , indeed , it be Christian at all . It would appear that Bryant was religious by temperament - on this we have a great deal of testi- mony - but that his poetry is ...
... poet hopes , guide him . This is but vaguely a Christian concept , if , indeed , it be Christian at all . It would appear that Bryant was religious by temperament - on this we have a great deal of testi- mony - but that his poetry is ...
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... poet " as Whittier or Longfellow is . In- deed , if one is to save this melancholy spirit for Christian poetry , one is almost tempted to define him as a Christian who fell into the heresy of Manichaeism - that the struggle between ...
... poet " as Whittier or Longfellow is . In- deed , if one is to save this melancholy spirit for Christian poetry , one is almost tempted to define him as a Christian who fell into the heresy of Manichaeism - that the struggle between ...
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... poetry . During his dark years at Derry , New Hampshire— since the days of Bronson Alcott New England had seldom seen a more impractical farmer - he read Emerson and Thoreau ; by and by , at Harvard , he was impressed by the thought of ...
... poetry . During his dark years at Derry , New Hampshire— since the days of Bronson Alcott New England had seldom seen a more impractical farmer - he read Emerson and Thoreau ; by and by , at Harvard , he was impressed by the thought of ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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