description: An eminent literary biographer and critic shows how poetry enriched the art of two representative English Romantic paintersVisionary 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.
language: English
title: Visionary and Dreamer: Two Poetic Painters: Samuel Palmer and Edward Burne-Jones
titlecomplete: Visionary and Dreamer: Two Poetic Painters: Samuel Palmer and Edward Burne-Jones (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 15)
genres: Art
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Princeton University Press