Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite
(Part of the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics Series)
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To English poets and writers of the seventeenth century, as to their predecessors, mountains were ugly protuberances which disfigured nature and threatened the symmetry of earth; they were symbols God's wrath. Yet, less than two centuries later the romantic poets sang in praise of mountain splendor, of glorious heights that stirred their souls to divine ecstasy. In this very readable and fascinating study, Marjorie Hope Nicolson considers the intellectual...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:B0007H00N8
ISBN13:9780295975771
Release Date:February 1997
Publisher:University of Washington Press
Length:432 Pages
Weight:1.55 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 8.5"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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