An eminent literary biographer and critic shows how poetry enriched the art of two representative English Romantic painters In Visionary and Dreamer , David Cecil evokes the century of the poet-painter, when painting drew much of its inspiration from imaginative literature. Samuel Palmer (1805-1881), an unworldly visionary, obscure in his lifetime but now a recognized master, and Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), the Pre-Raphaelite daydreamer, once revered as a great painter but later admired chiefly for his work in ...
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An eminent literary biographer and critic shows how poetry enriched the art of two representative English Romantic painters In Visionary and Dreamer , David Cecil evokes the century of the poet-painter, when painting drew much of its inspiration from imaginative literature. Samuel Palmer (1805-1881), an unworldly visionary, obscure in his lifetime but now a recognized master, and Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), the Pre-Raphaelite daydreamer, once revered as a great painter but later admired chiefly for his work in applied art, emerge as artists who turned to their own inner lives to interpret Shakespeare, Milton, and Keats.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0691098530. Bollingen Series XXXV: 15. Black and white plates. First edition. Foxing on fore edge, else very good in a very good (edge worn with one moderate sized chip, sun faded along the spine) dust jacket.
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Samuel Palmer & Edward Burne-Jones. Very good(+) in very good jacket. With a few illustrations, mostly in b/w. 222 pages. Large 8vo, tan cloth, edgeworn d.w. Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1969). A very good(+) copy in a very good) dust wrapper. Bollingen series XXXV.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Hbk 4to dj chipped, shelfworn and price-clipped now in protective sleeve internally this is an excellent clean tight text as new.
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Very good in good dust jacket. Hardcover is in very good condition, but the dust cover has wear. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 293 p. Contains: Illustrations. Bollingen Series, 35. the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 15. Audience: General/trade.