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Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite

Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite

Nicolson, Marjorie Hope
Cronon, William

Paperback

Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0295975776
ISBN13: 9780295975771
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: Feb 1 1997
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.29
Height: 1.05 Width: 6.07 Depth: 8.52
Language: English

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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