Back again Rick my thoughts more together.
I approach my Turner with the adulation of a perennially young Ruskin denying any adverse criticism. The ambition of conflating Turner and Death in a villanelle to me, is more than a touch hubristic. Death on a Pale Horse being unfinished is a fertile ekphrastic opportunity. Is the message pounding of a villanelle the right vehicle? I think not. I show my bias.
Have you seen some of Ruskin’s imitative work? It is interesting, to me though it did not have that ineffable spark.
Have you dipped into Frazer’s Golden Bough? It is a fantastic cultural repository.
The disparate elements do not cohere Rick, I like the conceit but again to me, the vehicle is wrong.
Jan
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