An eminent literary biographer and critic shows how poetry enriched the art of two representative English Romantic painters
Visionary and Dreamer 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.
- ISBN10 0691018588
- ISBN13 9780691018584
- Publish Date 21 September 1983 (first published 21 February 1970)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 330
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/266.html