Divine Landscapes: A Pilgrimage Through Britain's Sacred Places

by Ronald Blythe

Edwin Smith (Illustrator)

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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.
  • ISBN10 1853117730
  • ISBN13 9781853117732
  • Publish Date 27 February 2007 (first published 1 October 1986)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 10 February 2015
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Canterbury Press Norwich
  • Edition 3rd Revised edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 256
  • Language English