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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... verse is filled with specific mentions or descriptions of plants , trees , animals , bodies of water , mountains , winds , and skies - one scholar has found that Bryant mentions forty varieties of trees and over thirty kinds of flowers ...
... verse is filled with specific mentions or descriptions of plants , trees , animals , bodies of water , mountains , winds , and skies - one scholar has found that Bryant mentions forty varieties of trees and over thirty kinds of flowers ...
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... verse de- mands a more searching analysis than it has received . We have passed beyond the bias of the nineteenth century in reading him , but we have not as yet plucked out the heart of his mystery . III James Fenimore Cooper , to whom ...
... verse de- mands a more searching analysis than it has received . We have passed beyond the bias of the nineteenth century in reading him , but we have not as yet plucked out the heart of his mystery . III James Fenimore Cooper , to whom ...
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... verse nor down to it , but confront it . . . . The Transcendentalist sees everything as idealist . That is , all events , objects , etc. , seen , are images to the consciousness . It is the thought of them only that one sees . You shall ...
... verse nor down to it , but confront it . . . . The Transcendentalist sees everything as idealist . That is , all events , objects , etc. , seen , are images to the consciousness . It is the thought of them only that one sees . You shall ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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