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SCOUT· 40%15m·2026-08-28·HistoryReading -- New England poems: Lowell & Sexton
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We read poems dealing with the religious and intellectual history of New England & grappling with the legacies of Puritanism, the Great Awakening, and Transcendentalism: Robert Lowell's "Mr. Edwards and the Spider" and "Jonathan Edwards in Western Massachusetts," about the colonial minister, philosopher, and…
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