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The Collected Letters of Sir George and Lady Beaumont to the Wordsworth Family, 1803–1829 - with a Study of the Creative Exchange between Wordsworth and Beaumont (Hardcover)
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The Collected Letters of Sir George and Lady Beaumont to the Wordsworth Family, 1803–1829 - with a Study of the Creative Exchange between Wordsworth and Beaumont (Hardcover)
Series: Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780-1850, 14
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Sir George Beaumont is a key figure in the history of British art.
As well as being a respected amateur landscape painter, he was a
prominent patron, a collector, and co-founder of the National
Gallery. William Wordsworth described Beaumont’s friendship as
one of the chief blessings of his life, and this edition reveals
that the two men became collaborators as well as companions. In
addition to documenting unique perspectives on social, political,
and cultural events of the early nineteenth century (providing new
contexts for reading Wordsworth’s mature poetry), the letters
collected here chart the progress of an increasingly intimate
inter-familial relationship. The picture that emerges is of a
coterie that – in influence, creativity, and affection – rivals
Wordsworth’s more famous exchange with Coleridge at Nether Stowey
in the 1790s. The edition includes an extended study of how
Wordsworth and Beaumont helped shape one another’s work, tracing
processes of mutual artistic development that involved not only a
meeting of aristocratic refinement and rural simplicity, of a
socialite and a lover of retirement, of a painter and a poet, but
also an aesthetic rapprochement between neoclassical and romantic
values, between the impulse to idealize and the desire to
particularize.
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