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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... writers in America have , on the other hand , shown an indisposition to become involved in sectarian warfare . During ... writing . Even the agnostic Theodore Dreiser , with all his chemisms and his determinism , ends his career with The ...
... writers in America have , on the other hand , shown an indisposition to become involved in sectarian warfare . During ... writing . Even the agnostic Theodore Dreiser , with all his chemisms and his determinism , ends his career with The ...
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... writers and the standard modern ones , if they are not " religious , " are not therefore atheists . It is still true of serious writing that the great themes of literature are in a sense the great themes of religion . The existence and ...
... writers and the standard modern ones , if they are not " religious , " are not therefore atheists . It is still true of serious writing that the great themes of literature are in a sense the great themes of religion . The existence and ...
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... writing ) about much the same thing . There are religions without a literature ; I cannot think of a literature with no religion , not even in Russia — and by this I do not mean writing patterned on a creed but only writing answering an ...
... writing ) about much the same thing . There are religions without a literature ; I cannot think of a literature with no religion , not even in Russia — and by this I do not mean writing patterned on a creed but only writing answering an ...
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Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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