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Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.
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When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches of an elm behind which the moon had risen. I have never forgot those shadows and am often trying to paint them.
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It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sparkles.
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I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.
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Born:
January 27, 1805
Died:
May 24, 1881
(aged 76)
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Samuel Palmer was a British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker. He was also a prolific writer. Palmer was a key figure in Romanticism in Britain and produced visionary pastoral paintings.
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