Comparing John Constables Painting The Cornfield and William Wordswort

mental representations of Time Wordsworth and Constable I do not know how without being culpably feature I can give my Reader a more exact notion of the style in which I wished these poems to be written, than by informing him that I have at all times endeavored to look steadily at my subject consequently, I hope that there is in these Poems little falsehood of description, and my ideas argon expressed in language fitted to their respective importance. Something I must have gained by this practice, as it is friendly to one property of all honest poetry, namely, steady-going sense but it has necessarily cut me off from a large portion of phrases and figures of speech which from father to son have long been regarded as the ballpark inheritance of Poets.-- William Wordsworth, from the Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800, 1802) It appears to me that pictures have been over-valued held up by a blind admiration as ideal things, and al or so as standards by which spirit is to be jud ged rather than the reverse and this false estimate has been sanctioned by the extravagant epithets that have been applied to painters, and the divine, the inspired, and so forth. Yet in reality, what are the most sublime productions of the pencil but selections of some of the forms of nature, and copies of a few of her evanescent effects, and this is the result, not of inspiration, but of long and patient study, under the instruction of much good sense Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape be considered as a branch of inherent philosophy, of which pictures are but experiments?-- John Constable, from a lecture at the Royal Institution (June 16, 1836)The styles of John... ...licity and consequently may be more accurately contemplated and more forcibly communicated.BibliographyGoldwater, Robert and Marco Treves (eds.). Artists on Art from the XIV to the XX Century. bare-assed York Pantheon Books, 1945.Hef fernan, James A. W. The Re-Creation of Landscape A Study of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Constable, and Turner. Hanover UP of New England, 1985.Helsinger, Elizabeth K. Rural Scenes and National Representation Britain, 1815-1850. Princeton, NJ Princeton UP, 1997.Kroeber, Karl. Romantic Landscape Vision Constable and Wordsworth. Madison, WI University of Wisconsin Press, 1975.Paulson, Ronald. Literary Landscape Turner and Constable. New Haven Yale UP, 1982.Wolfson, Susan and Peter Manning (eds.). The Longman Anthology of British Literature The Romantics and Their Contemporaries. Volume 2A. New York Longman, 1999.