Romantic Imagery of Light and Darkness: Cultural Backgrounds
FAIN: FB-12958-76
Robert A. Glick
Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC 20003-1004)
To investigate the romantic use of light and dark imagery through a discussion of four major areas; The religious tradition which used light as metaphors for God, night as solace, the aesthetic factor which identified dark or light with the sublime and optical theories of darkness.