Thanks, Tom (and thanks to Genevieve and Carol, too. Yes, the commentaries
might be very interesting to check in this regard. I like to think that
Redcrosse will make it eventually to the City he can descry from the hill
he's on, but not now. It's the "Mont de Contemplation" in La Boderie's
"Galliade" that has me intrigued precisely because of the name. The man
also wrote a sonnet sequence on the duc d'Alencon, an unlikely subject for
a sonnet sequence, although so far I haven't read it to see if young
Francois-Hercule is given pearly teeth and golden-wired hair or told to
seize the day (or at least the Netherlands). Anne.
> (For Anne Prescott)
> Do you mean Mounts specifically designated Contemplation, or just any old
> mounts of visionary destiny? If the latter, then I suppose Nebo/Pisgah
> would be the main antetype, though Moses, of course, was looking at what
> he
> specifically would NEVER get to because he had sinned. Just because one
> can
> see it from a sublime place doesn't mean one can reach it. An admonitory
> thought perhaps. Whether Nebo was taken up specifically as a type of
> contemplation in commentaries might be worth looking into. It's hard to
> imagine it wasn't, but I don't have particular texts to hand.
>
> Tom
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