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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... seem to be unfair to Catholic and Jewish writers , but the difficulty is inherent in the topic and not of my creating . Another general observation seems necessary . We have had countless 2 TOM PAINE AND REPUBLICAN RELIGION.
... seem to be unfair to Catholic and Jewish writers , but the difficulty is inherent in the topic and not of my creating . Another general observation seems necessary . We have had countless 2 TOM PAINE AND REPUBLICAN RELIGION.
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... seems to address his own soul as a being separate from himself . It has been suggested that his way of speaking both to and of the soul may be a habit lingering from Whitman's days as a newspaper editor , when the editorial " we " was ...
... seems to address his own soul as a being separate from himself . It has been suggested that his way of speaking both to and of the soul may be a habit lingering from Whitman's days as a newspaper editor , when the editorial " we " was ...
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... seem stationary to us . This inhuman machine has not changed to the eye since man began to drag down man and nation to drag ... seems certainly safe to last tonight . But in the next volume , A Further Range ( 1936 ) , another poem urges ...
... seem stationary to us . This inhuman machine has not changed to the eye since man began to drag down man and nation to drag ... seems certainly safe to last tonight . But in the next volume , A Further Range ( 1936 ) , another poem urges ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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