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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...
...private collection of Paul Mellon, president of the gallery. It was Constable's moral feeling for the countryside of England, outgoing Gallery Director John Walker points out in the catalogue, that is his principal achievement. "More than any other artist, he was able to embody in paint Wordsworth's 'Impulse from a Vernal Wood,' " Walker writes. "He remains among artists the high priest of pantheism, the primate of a new religion of natural beauty...
Forward Observer. This is not new for Snow, who has always evaded the unutterably difficult process of fictional creation, partly by projecting his alter ego into his books as a central character, partly by believing as Wordsworth did that the story of men's lives can be made passionately interesting by the mere assertion that it is so. In The Sleep of Reason, despite Snow's best efforts, Eliot remains a mere observer. For though Eliot never permits himself the indulgence of easy indignation over the crime, he cannily refuses to press thought to its extremes. He ends...
...Wordsworth & that sort of thing...
Coleridge Wordsworth...