the development of the aesthetics of the infinite
Edición de la obra Mountain gloom and mountain glory
| Autor | Nicolson, Marjorie Hope |
|---|---|
| Editorial | University of Washington Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 1997 |
| Lugar | Seattle |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 403 |
| ISBN-10 | 0295975776 |
| OCLC | 36023994 |
| LCCN | 96049189 |
| Serie | Weyerhaeuser environmental classics |
| Número de Cutter |
N654mTo 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.