Poetry And Painting
ROWNING is even more illuminating about painting than he is about music. He is the painter’s poet. The reason is that he loved painting and sculpture with something ‘of William Morris’s passion-loved it as a live thing, studied its technique, and practised it himself. Chesterton says of Browning’s poems about art that they smell of paint. Browning could not merely talk art with artists-he could talk shop with them. One of Browning’s poems is called " Pacchiarothe and How He Worked in Distemper." Chesterton cites the case of a woman who thought Pacchiarothe was the name of adog, and distemper his disease. Distemper here is, of course, a method of painting-(" More Than One String to their . Bows." 2YA, March 8.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 144, 27 March 1942, Page 3
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123Poetry And Painting New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 144, 27 March 1942, Page 3
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