Word: untrodden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed just the time for such painting. Wordsworth was hymning the virtues of Lucy's untrodden ways, Rousseau hailed the natural man, Thomas Gray's ploughman had plodded his weary wav homeward, and William Blake deplored the "dark satanic mills" that despoiled England's green and pleasant land. But most of Constable's contemporaries were concerned, as Constable often complained, with "the elevated and noble walks of art, i.e., preferring the shaggy posterior of a satyr to the moral feeling of landscape...
Describing important convictions in the administration's urban policy, he said, "The small town atmosphere has appeared from our major cities and cannot be reclaimed. Yet somehow the persists that city planners can recapture the virtues of the past with green and high rise apartments in the of untrodden grass...