Visionary and Dreamer: Two Poetic Painters: Samuel Palmer and Edward Burne-Jones

by David Cecil

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691252162
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	08/15/2023
Series:	The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts , #35
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Cecil (1902–1986) was a literary historian and biographer and Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford from 1948 until his retirement in 1969. He was the author of many books, including The Stricken Deer: Or the Life of William Cowper and A Portrait of Jane Austen.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“[Cecil] does more for both painters than simply recount their lives. He presents both the visionary and the dreamer in the bright and captivating light of his own sympathy.”—The Observer

Editorial Reviews

"[Cecil] does more for both painters than simply recount their lives. He presents both the visionary and dreamer in the bright and captivating light of his own sympathy."

The Observer