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Romantic Winter: The Season Sight

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In this chapter, Gopnik traces how humanity’s relationship with winter evolved from classical mythology through to the modern era, highlighting figures like William Cowper, Caspar David Friedrich, Alexander Pushkin, and Lawren Harris.

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Adam Gopnik

Adam Gopnik is the author of the international bestseller Paris to the Moon; Through the Children’s Gate: A Home in New York; Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life; and Steps Across the Water. He has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. He is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism and the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he grew up in Montreal, Quebec. From 1995 to 2000, he lived in Paris. He now lives in New York City with his wife and their two children.