“theres a man I know who has never painted anything—his name is morris-he has iundertaken one of the panels and he wil do something very good” p. 314
“being young, talented, and having many ideas of their own felt stifled by the rigidity of the Royal Academy”
“haughty belief that only true great art came before the 16th century”
“believing that the arts were closely allied” p. 317
“Hopkins seems to prepare the way for van gogh”
“naturalism … the love of natural objects for their own sake” p322
“deliberate midevilism”
“subjects that are innately poignant, melancholy or morbid”