The Habitual Peacefulness Of Gruchy: Poems After Pictures By Jean-francois Millet
by David Middleton
2021-01-01 08:58:44
The Habitual Peacefulness Of Gruchy: Poems After Pictures By Jean-francois Millet
by David Middleton
2021-01-01 08:58:44
David Middleton celebrates the artist Jean-François Millet''s sympathetic realism depicting the harsh life of French peasants in the nineteenth century and honoring their essential human dignity. Middleton follows Millet, picture by picture, in taki...
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David Middleton celebrates the artist Jean-François Millet''s sympathetic realism depicting the harsh life of French peasants in the nineteenth century and honoring their essential human dignity. Middleton follows Millet, picture by picture, in taking a lowly pastoral theme and elevating it to epic and tragedy. He seeks to describe Gruchy -- the small Norman village near Cherbourg where Millet grew up -- and explore that rural world in relation to the American South and his own career as a Louisiana poet.
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