The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science and the Imagination

by E. Wilson (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $63.86

  Studied in esoteric and exoterical representations of frozen phenomena, several Romantic figures - including Coleridge and Poe, Percy and Mary Shelley, Emerson and Thoreau - challenged traditional notions of ice as waste and instead celebrated crystals, glaciers, and the poles as special disclosures of a holistic principle of being.