Artistic Tributes
Beside Emerson and Thoreau, other artists and writers have been inspired by Mount Monadnock, including:
- William Preston Phelps (1848–1917), artist, was known as "The Painter of Mount Monadnock"
- Numerous other American artists have painted Mount Monadnock, including Abbott Thayer, Rockwell Kent and Richard Whitney.
- The American composer Alan Hovhaness (1911–2000), who climbed Mount Monadnock several times during his youth, composed a symphonic fantasy entitled Monadnock, Op. 2, around 1935.
- Early 20th century horror fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft wrote a poem about the mountain entitled To Templeton and Mount Monadnock
- Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Galway Kinnell wrote about the mountain in his poem Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock.
- Part of the yearly Mount Monadnock Celebration of Dance takes place on the summit of Mount Monadnock at the autumn equinox.
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