Salon Painters / The Autobiography and Memoirs of Benjamin Robert Haydon
I would like to consider the normal maturation of a talent, in painting for example, and ask what qualities in the artist and what conditions in society make for success.
Four Poems
The natural joined with the artificial
to flavor this aid to social ease,
peppered with mint crystals
in the form of green pin pricks
A Backward Glance O’er Travel’d Roads
PERHAPS the best of songs heard, or of any and all true love, or life's fairest episodes, or sailors', soldiers' trying scenes on land or sea, is the résumé of them,
The Lady of Deerpark
With what she received from the Court of Chancery she was able to hide herself away from the world.
Three Poems
The fact that I get to meet you for anything,
on a corner in New York City, fills me with awe
for the miracle of my entire existence.
on a corner in New York City, fills me with awe
for the miracle of my entire existence.
El Credo De Isaac Albeniz Por Iberia
In the silence of the night, interrupted by the whispers of breezes perfumed with jasmine
Credo
I have been urged by Mr. Lee Simonson – who, if he would, could do it much better (I too have other pleasures) – to write about my own paintings.
