…see more clearly a number of events in nature than we were able to see before. There's a very amusing anecdote recorded of Constable and one of his chief patrons, Sir George Beaumont, who was an amateur painter himself and an art critic. who came to see…

…and one of his chief patrons, Sir George Beaumont, who was an amateur painter himself and an art critic. who came to see Constable in his studio one day and found him at work on one of these beautiful, fresh landscapes, which were his speciality, which…

…one of these beautiful, fresh landscapes, which were his speciality, which he produced with such extraordinary power. And he said to Constable, now Constable, tell me, where do you place your brown tree? And Gansport said, I don't place it anywhere. I don't…

…these beautiful, fresh landscapes, which were his speciality, which he produced with such extraordinary power. And he said to Constable, now Constable, tell me, where do you place your brown tree? And Gansport said, I don't place it anywhere. I don't have…

…of late 18th century landscape had a great deal of brownness about it. And it was precisely from this brownness that Constable was reacting into something quite novel, which in its time finally had a very considerable influence on the later Impressionists.…

…of seeing nature always with a brown tree here and something else brown there. And that he was rather shocked by seeing Constable painting pictures which were brilliantly green with white clouds and blue sky of an intense power overhead. And in the same…

…a good deal less expressive than the than the landscapes in terms of which say the song painters or in terms of which Constable Turner or the Impressionists expressed the states of their mind. We see that and I think we see in poetry something of the…