Mountains, Robert Frost, and More

What is it about brutally inhospitable mountains that can move us so totally and instinctively?

As poetry and criticism professionalized, difficulty was fetishized. But Robert Frost’s difficulties are of a different kind... more »

What is it about brutally inhospitable mountains that can move us so totally and instinctively? Nan Shepherd called it “the tang of height”... more »

In a famous scene in Moby-Dick, Ishmael encounters “a long, limber, port…