Some of Our English Poets (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Gray, in a letter to his mother, dilates on the beauty of the crags and precipices, which lent boldness to the scenery, with a warmth of language which proves him to have been a loving observer of Nature in her most sublime and grandest moods.

From a letter to West, written in Turin nine days later, we discover that Gray's thoughts still lingered among the wonders he had left behind.

I own I have not as yet [he wrote] anywhere met with those grand and simple works of art that are to amaze one, and whose sight one is to be the better for; but those of nature have astonished me beyond expression. In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation that there was no restraining not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument. One need not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits here at noonday. You have Death perpetually before your eyes, only so far removed as to com pose the mind without frighting it. I am well persuaded that St. Bruno was a man of no common genius to choose such a situation for his retirement, and perhaps I should have been a disciple of his had I been born in his time.

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