Verses Versus In a letter to his mother in 1739, Thomas Gray recounted the details of his arduous journey to the Grande Chartreuse: “From thence [Eschelles] we proceeded on horses, who are used to the way, to the mountain of the Chartreuse. It is six miles to the top; the road runs winding up it, commonly not six feet broad; on one hand is the rock, with woods of pine-trees hanging overhead; on the other, a monstrous precipice” (Gray 2). Although he made this pilgrimage over a century before…
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