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.
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