Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite
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 renaissance at the close of the seventeenth century that caused the shift from mountain gloom to mountain glory. She examines various writers from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries and traces both the causes and the process of this drastic change in perception.
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Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite
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 renaissance at the close of the seventeenth century that caused the shift from mountain gloom to mountain glory. She examines various writers from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries and traces both the causes and the process of this drastic change in perception.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780295975771 |
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Publisher: | University of Washington Press |
Publication date: | 02/01/1997 |
Series: | Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics |
Edition description: | REPRINT |
Pages: | 432 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.95(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
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