Word: cobbett
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result his entire view of rural England presents Arcadia in a new guise. One could never imagine, looking at his paintings of Dedham Vale and the River Stour, that the placid shires of the 1820s and '30s looked very different to the writer and reformer William Cobbett, that they were full of rick burners, machine breakers, hanging judges and posses of brutal yeomanry...