Machine in the Garden by Marx Leo;

Author:Marx, Leo;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2000-02-25T16:00:00+00:00

“The Lackawanna Valley” by George Inness.

“American Landscape” by Charles Sheeler

In 1855, the Year that Inness completed his painting, Thomas Buchanan Read, a Connecticut poetaster, published his long poem, The New Pastoral He begins with an invocation to the land, and especially to

. . . that pastoral phase,

Where man is native to his sphere, which shows

The simple light of nature, fresh from God! —

That middle life, between the hut and palace,

‘Twixt squalid ignorance and splendid vice; —

Above, by many roods of moral moves,

The Indian’s want, and happily below —

If the superior may be called below —

The purple and fine linen. . . .

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