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OverviewTo 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Marjorie Hope Nicolson , William CrononPublisher: University of Washington Press Imprint: University of Washington Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.20cm Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9780295975771ISBN 10: 0295975776 Pages: 432 Publication Date: 01 February 1997 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsForeword by William Cronon Preface Introduction The Literary Heritage The Tehological Dilemma New Philosophy The Geological Dilemma A Sacred Theory of the Earth The Burnet Controversy The Aesthetics of the Infinite A New Descriptive Poetry Epilogue IndexReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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