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Prophets of Nature: Green Spirituality in Romantic Poetry and Painting
Prophets of Nature Green Spirituality in Romantic Poetry and Painting Author:Gordon Strachan Many millennia before the present Scriptures existed, God wrote his first book--nature itself. Through that "original Bible" ancient peoples experienced the mind and will of God. During the eighteenth century, it seemed as though the intellectual Enlightenment closed that book forever. However, in the following century, the Romantic poets and pa... more »inters rediscovered the spirit enshrined in the natural world.
This perceptive study by well-known thinker and writer Gordon Strachan discusses the tradition of green spirituality as seen through such poets as Wordsworth and Coleridge and the painters Samuel Palmer, Caspar David Friedrich, and William Turner.
Strachan argues for a genuine spiritual vision of these artists before the so-called twilight of Romanticism set in. He shows that there are many deep springs of inspiration in their work that are in harmony with our current environmental concerns.« less