Note 32 to Chapter 8 of the author's George Eliot and the Visual Arts, which Yale University Press published in a 1979. It has been included in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
On Constable and Wordsworth, see Kroeber, Romantic Landscape Vision; Kenneth Clark, English Romantic Poets and Landscape Painting (London, 1945); Martha Hale Shackford, Wordsworth's Interest in Painters and Pictures (Wellesley, Mass., 1945); R. T. Storch, "Wordsworth and Constable," Studies in Romanticism, 5 (1966), 121-38; and J. R. Watson, "Wordsworth and Constable," Review of English Studies, 13 (1962), 361-67.
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