Böcker av Marjorie Hope Nicolson

.,." By the plan of relating her material to the main currents of thought in her period, Miss Nicholson gives her book an interest for all students of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."-Saturday Review

Considers the intellectual renaissance at the close of the 17th century that caused the shift in the portrayals and perceptions of mountains in prose and poetry, from ugly protuberances to glorious heights. Examines various writers from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, and traces both the causes