Thursday, December 4, 2014

Denham's "Cooper's Hill": the poem itself.

One of many views of Windsor Castle from Cooper's Hill. Another later view.

"Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey." What Wordsworth would have seen "a few miles above Tintern Abbey," thanks to D. S. Miall: a modern-day view and the relevant plate from Samuel Ireland's Picturesque Views on the River Wye (1797), which describes Wordsworth's path. The Wye with sycamores (picture by Miall).

Lake Superior's stony North Shore. Lake Itasca.

Elizabeth Bishop's Ouro Preto house (side view). The same house from below, in sunlight. The same house, with mountainside.

Revell's Mojave: Red Rock Natural Arch. A desert cloud shadow by I-15.

Albrecht Dürer, View of the Arco Valley. Alternate image source for the same painting.

Minhinnick's Porthcawl Beach. The beach is popular. But not all the time.