Product Description

"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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #267190 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 252 pages

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.

Customer Reviews

divine landscapes
This is a rather wonderful book of the most beautiful prose interspersed with poetry and exerpts from other books thrown in, for good measure!
It is a sort of pigrimage but has that unique quality about it that it enfolds you in the journeying and cannot be read quickly.
It is a book to savour.