William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… beauty was central to most of his life, it was more a solitary activity than a collective one. Gilpin’s experience of sociability was first and foremost epistolary and literary. However, the headmaster tried to prepare his pupils for a … > Art and Literature Mots-clés Animals Beauty Correspondence Death Education Nature Philanthropy Picturesque Religion Unsociability William Gilpin (1724-1804) was a clergyman, ordained deacon in 1746, first appointed to the curacy of … and that they might like each other’s hand-writing better than their persons. 4 2 . For a definition of ‘unsocial sociability’ as the human ‘propensity to enter into society, bound together with a mutual opposition which constantly …
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