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

By William Cronon , Marjorie Hope Nicolson

Book information

Publisher
University of Washington Press
Year
1959
ISBN
0295975776, 9780295975771
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (18943009 bytes)
Series
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics
Edition
Reprint
Pages
432\211
Time added
2018-05-22 18:43:02
Criticism & Theory;History & Criticism;Literature

Description

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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