Birket Foster's pictures of English landscape . ^^^^ di^L*. PREFACE. It is fair that the public should be informed of the relation of thedesigner and the writer who have contributed to this volume. Birket Fosters drawings were made quite independently of the versesI have attempted to set to them. I am therefore the more free toexpress, in the first place, my admiration of the singular grace, fertilityand facility of invention, felicitous arrangement of line, and harmoniousdistribution of light and shadow which distinguish the compositions ofthis charming artist. The verses which I have associa
Birket Foster's pictures of English landscape . ^^^^ di^L*. PREFACE. It is fair that the public should be informed of the relation of thedesigner and the writer who have contributed to this volume. Birket Fosters drawings were made quite independently of the versesI have attempted to set to them. I am therefore the more free toexpress, in the first place, my admiration of the singular grace, fertilityand facility of invention, felicitous arrangement of line, and harmoniousdistribution of light and shadow which distinguish the compositions ofthis charming artist. The verses which I have associated with his designs are meant to har-monize with and illustrate, without pretending to describe, the inventionsof the painter. In this free way, I believe, pen and pencil will be found towork best together. The painter, as a rule, succeeds as ill in paintingafter the writers descriptions, as the writer who tries to produce a picturein words after the painter. But picture may be set to poem, or poemto picture, as music is set to words, with an effect thatbirketfosterspic00tayl
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