The Spiritual History of Ice
Subtitle: Romanticism, Science, and the Imagination
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 16, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780312292997
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary studies: 19th century; Ice in literature; English literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Poetry; Gothic & Romance; Literary Criticism / Poetry; American literature; 19th century; 20th century; History and criticism
First sentence: In Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646), Sir Thomas Browne, an essayist close to the heart of Thoreau, reports that authorities as venerable as Pliny, Seneca, Saint Augustine, and Gregory the Great believed that crystals were "nothing else, but Ice or Snow concreted, and by duration of time, congealed beyond liquation."