| Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite Revised Edition Contributor(s): Nicolson, Marjorie Hope (Author), Cronon, William (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0295975776 ISBN-13: 9780295975771 Publisher: University of Washington Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 1997 Annotation: 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 of 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 821.009 |
| LCCN: 96049189 |
| Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 6.07" W x 8.52" (1.29 lbs) 432 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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| Publisher 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. |