Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite by Marjorie Hope Nicolson

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

Marjorie Hope Nicolson

432 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction art history philosophy informative reflective fast-paced
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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 th...

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