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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
·
George Gissing
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One
obvious
reason
for
the
long
neglect
of
Turner
lies
in
the
fact
that
his
genius
does
not
seem
to
be
truly
English.
Turner's
landscape,
even
when
it
presents
familiar
scenes,
does
not
show
them
in
the
familiar
light.
Neither
the
artist
nor
the
intelligent
layman
is
satisfied.
He
gives
us
glorious
visions;
we
admit
the
glory--but
we
miss
something
which
we
deem
essential.
I
doubt
whether
Turner
tasted
rural
England;
I
doubt
whether
the
spirit
of
English
poetry
was
in
him;
I
doubt
whether
the
essential
significance
of
the
common
things
which
we
call
beautiful
was
revealed
to
his
soul.
Such
doubt
does
not
affect
his
greatness
as
a
poet
in
colour
and
in
form,
but
I
suspect
that
it
has
always
been
the
cause
why
England
could
not
love
him.
If
any
man
whom
I
knew
to
be
a
man
of
brains
confessed
to
me
that
he
preferred
Birket
Foster,
I
should
smile--but
I
should
understand.
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