Table of Contents

Introduction - Palmer's Vision, William Vaughan; Palmer's Literary Inspiration, David Blayney Brown (Tate); Palmer and the Politics of Landscape, David Bindman (UCL); Palmer and Richmond, Elizabeth Barker (Met); Palmer and the Neo-Romantics, Colin Harrison (Ashmolean); Part One; The Romantic Visionary; 1. Early Years; 2. The Primitive Vision; 3. Shoreham and the Ancients; 4. Later Shoreham; Part Two; The Victorian; 5. The Traveller; 6. Italy; 7. Sketches and Idylls; 8. The Lonely Tower Chronology; Select Bibliography; Glossary; Index.

About the Author

William Vaughan is Professor Emeritus at Birkbeck College, London; Elizabeth E. Barker is Curator of British Art, New York, and Colin Harrison is a Curator in the Department of Fine Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Other contributors are: David Bindman, Durning Laurence Professor of the History of Art, University College London; David Blayney Brown, Senior Curator, Tate Britain; Alexandra Greathead, Conservator, Ashmolean Museum; Marjorie Shelley, Principal Curator of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Scott Willcox, Curator of Prints and Drawings, Yales Centre for British Art, New Haven.

Reviews

"The lonely light that Samuel Palmer engraved, An image of mysterious wisdom won by toll' (W. B. Yeats, The Wild Swans at Coole)"