Divine Landscapes: A Pilgrimage Through Britain's Sacred Places - Hardcover

Ronald Blythe; Edwin Smith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670801615 ISBN 13: 9780670801619

Publisher: Viking, 1986

Synopsis

Divine Landscapes is an illustrated guide to some of the places where mystics, poets and saintly writers lived and worked, drawing on their local surroundings to find metaphors and images for the sublime and inexpressible. Among many places, we discover anew: John Donne's London, George Herbert's riverside haunts in Chelsea, Cambridge and Salisbury, John Bunyon's Celestial City in Bedford, Langland's Shropshire and Malvern Hills, Julian's Norwich,Columba's Iona, Cuthbert's Holy Island and other sites hallowed by Celtic poet saints. It is illustrated with Edwin Smith's timeless black and white images.

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Review:

*'A beautifully illustrated and immensely informative spiritual travel book, a volume to buy and cherish' Daily Telegraph * 'Outstanding...memorable...quite splendid' Catholic Herald *A book with equal appeal in the general and the religious book trade

About the Author:

RONALD BLYTHE is one of Britain's foremost literary names and in 2006 was awarded the prestigious Benson Medal, a prize awarded by the Royal Society of Literature in recognition of lifetime achievement.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0670801615
• ISBN 13: 9780670801619
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256