Out-Doors at Idlewild; or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson

Out-Doors at Idlewild; or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the HudsonChronicles the creation of a picturesque home and landscape on the Hudson River by one of the nineteenth century's leading authors. During the 1850s and '60s, by far the most prominent author in all of New York State was the writer, editor, and publisher Nathaniel Parker Willis (18061867). Nearly as prominent as Willis himself was his Hudson Valley estate, Idlewild, where literary elites gathered and about which Willis himself wrote and published

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Shows how the aesthetic views of Plotinus and later Neoplatonists have played a role in the history of Western art