Friday, April 27, 2012

Because it was there …

… Anecdotal Evidence: `Men Go to Admire the High Mountains'.

2 comments:

  1. It's funny. It seems to me that people who dismiss "mountain awe" out of hand have probably never climbed a mountain. Speaking as a poet who has climbed the Grand Tetons, and other mountains, I find that to be just another example of the parochial dismissal of ecstasy.

    And to take nothing way from Petrarch, it must be pointed out that Asia has a much older, rich tradition of poetry of mountain awe. India and China in particular.

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  2. Well, you're right about climbing mountains, Art. I've only done it in the Adirondacks, but there is nothing like it.

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