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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... things because the course of things is somehow supremely directed , probably by divinity . Such , at any rate , is what I make of the hymn of Cleanthes , which addresses Zeus as the sovereign of nature and says , among other things ...
... things because the course of things is somehow supremely directed , probably by divinity . Such , at any rate , is what I make of the hymn of Cleanthes , which addresses Zeus as the sovereign of nature and says , among other things ...
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... things together , the good with the evil , so that there might be one eternal law governing all . And I read in the ... things , in thee are all things , to thee all things return . The poet says , Dear city of Cecrops and wilt not thou ...
... things together , the good with the evil , so that there might be one eternal law governing all . And I read in the ... things , in thee are all things , to thee all things return . The poet says , Dear city of Cecrops and wilt not thou ...
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... things , to thee all things return . " Thanatopsis " early proclaims what many of Bryant's later poems solemnly intone : that the wise man will reconcile himself to the vast cycle of nature . Here are some typical statements : ... the ...
... things , to thee all things return . " Thanatopsis " early proclaims what many of Bryant's later poems solemnly intone : that the wise man will reconcile himself to the vast cycle of nature . Here are some typical statements : ... the ...
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Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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