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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... speak of was of great simplicity of mind , but of sterling worth . Unlike most of those who lived a border life , he united the better instead of the worst qualities of the two people [ Indians and whites ] . He was a man endowed with ...
... speak of was of great simplicity of mind , but of sterling worth . Unlike most of those who lived a border life , he united the better instead of the worst qualities of the two people [ Indians and whites ] . He was a man endowed with ...
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... speaking both to and of the soul may be a habit lingering from Whitman's days as a newspaper editor , when the ... speak without embarrassment senti- ments or judgments appropriate to the poem . Such a mask is in modern criticism ...
... speaking both to and of the soul may be a habit lingering from Whitman's days as a newspaper editor , when the ... speak without embarrassment senti- ments or judgments appropriate to the poem . Such a mask is in modern criticism ...
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... speak to and of the soul indirectly ; the difficulty is that in this respect as in others Whitman is inconsistent ... speaking through a persona and not directly , for the Whitman tribe was by no means as affectionate and unified as the ...
... speak to and of the soul indirectly ; the difficulty is that in this respect as in others Whitman is inconsistent ... speaking through a persona and not directly , for the Whitman tribe was by no means as affectionate and unified as the ...
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Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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