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Updated: July 8, 2025
We shall still appreciate the beauty of the primitives and academics, but we shall not be able again to prefer them to the plein-airistes. Or recall the development of English poetry. We still admit the contribution of Dryden and Pope, but we shall never have to fight over again the battle won by Wordsworth and his contemporaries for imagination and emotion.
The Academy... a picture in very bright colours... a woman sitting by the roadside with a shawl round her shoulders and a red skirt and red cheeks and bright green country behind her... people moving about on the shiny floor, someone just behind saying, "that is plein-air, these are the plein-airistes" the woman in the picture was like the housekeeper....
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