Father Past and Child Nation: The Romantic Imagination and the Origins of the American Civil War |
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... Nature , and these two literary innovations were closely connected . Nature , commonly personified by the romantic generation as " the great Mother , " is the maternal presence in the romance . Nature , as Rufus Choate suggested , was ...
... Nature , and these two literary innovations were closely connected . Nature , commonly personified by the romantic generation as " the great Mother , " is the maternal presence in the romance . Nature , as Rufus Choate suggested , was ...
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... Nature , formerly a virgin continent . Nature was a howling and barren wilderness until the coming of Washington portended a drastic transformation . John R. Tait , in his poem " The Twenty - Second of February , ' depicted Nature's ...
... Nature , formerly a virgin continent . Nature was a howling and barren wilderness until the coming of Washington portended a drastic transformation . John R. Tait , in his poem " The Twenty - Second of February , ' depicted Nature's ...
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... Nature . " Some- times a mortal feels in himself Nature , not his father but his Mother stirs within him , and he becomes immortal with her immortality , " Thoreau wrote . " From time to time she claims kindredship with us , and some ...
... Nature . " Some- times a mortal feels in himself Nature , not his father but his Mother stirs within him , and he becomes immortal with her immortality , " Thoreau wrote . " From time to time she claims kindredship with us , and some ...
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