Author:
Strachan, Gordon
Long before any religious scriptures were created, God wrote His first book - nature itself. It was through this "original Bible" that men and women of ancient times experienced the mind and will of God. After the 18th-century Enlightenment seemed to close that book forever, the Romantic poets and painters re-discovered the spirit enshrined in the natural world. This perceptive study discusses the tradition of green spirituality as seen through poets like Wordsworth and Coleridge and painters like Samuel Palmer and William Turner. 160 pp.