Mountaineering and British Romanticism

This book examines the relationship between Romantic-period writing and the activity that Samuel Taylor Coleridge christened ''mountaineering'' in 1802. It argues that mountaineering developed as a pursuit in Britain during the Romantic era, earlier than is generally recognised, and shows how writers including William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ann Radcliffe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and ...