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“A View of The Sublime Awful”: The Language of A Pioneer

“A View of The Sublime Awful”: The Language of A Pioneer Donald Zochert Western American Literature, Volume 6, Number 4, Winter 1972, pp. 251-257 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1972.0031 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/528993/summary Access provided at 22 Feb 2020 04:20 GMT from JHU Libraries DON A LD Z O C H E R T TJie Chicago Daily Neivs 401 N o rth W abash A venue Chicago, Illinois 60611 “A View o f The Sublime A w fu l”: The Language of A Pioneer “T h is is a country th a t may captivate m ad poets,” W illiam H. Russell wrote of the W est in 1846, “b u t I swear I see n o th in g b u t big rocks, an d a great m any of them . . -” 1 Few travelers of the w estern fro n tier could so completely dissociate themselves from the R om antic spirit. T o this s p irit the conspicuously literate yielded eagerly, b eating rom ance from the com monplace w ith a gilt-edged rhetoric. T h e y crossed streams w ith “cerulean cognom enation,” th rille d to the sound of In d ia http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Western American Literature University of Nebraska Press

“A View of The Sublime Awful”: The Language of A Pioneer

Zochert, Donald
Western American Literature , Volume 6 (4) – Oct 4, 2017
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Donald Zochert Western American Literature, Volume 6, Number 4, Winter 1972, pp. 251-257 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1972.0031 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/528993/summary Access provided at 22 Feb 2020 04:20 GMT from JHU Libraries DON A LD Z O C H E R T TJie Chicago Daily Neivs 401 N o rth W abash A venue Chicago, Illinois 60611 “A View o f The Sublime A w fu l”: The Language of A Pioneer “T h is is a country th a t may captivate m ad poets,” W illiam H. Russell wrote of the W est in 1846, “b u t I swear I see n o th in g b u t big rocks, an d a great m any of them . . -” 1 Few travelers of the w estern fro n tier could so completely dissociate themselves from the R om antic spirit. T o this s p irit the conspicuously literate yielded eagerly, b eating rom ance from the com monplace w ith a gilt-edged rhetoric. T h e y crossed streams w ith “cerulean cognom enation,” th rille d to the sound of In d ia

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