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ART CRITICISM by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

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First Line: FIRST BRING ME RAFFAEL, WHO ALONE HATH SEEN
Last Line: ON ONE WARM SUNSET OF AUSONIAN CLAUDE.
Subject(s): ART & ARTISTS; PAINTINGS & PAINTERS;
FIRST bring me Raffael, who alone hath seen
In all her purity heaven's virgin queen,
Alone hath felt true beauty; bring me then
Titian, ennobler of the noblest men;
And next the sweet Correggio, nor chastise
His little Cupids for those wicked eyes.
I want not Rubens's pink puffy bloom,
Nor Rembrandt's glimmer in a dusty room.
With those, and Poussin's nymph-frequented
woods,
His templed heights and long-drawn solitudes,
I am content, yet fain would look abroad
On one warm sunset of Ausonian Claude.


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