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| | A Review of Two Works Related to Samuel Palmer |
 | | Furthermore, Palmer's comments would also seem to demand that the editor identify a specific painting, since the artist's mention that he received enjoyment from "the poetic heat and movement of feet upon the sands" suggests that Frost had painted another version of the subject chosen by Richard Dadd and R. Huskisson. |
 | | Nonetheless, despite generally scrupulous editing, The Letters of Samuel Palmer are somewhat disappointing, for although we learn a great deal about the artist's later development and his often trying relationship with Linnell, there are few new letters from the Shoreham years, the period of his greatest creativity. |
 | | The basic difficulty is that having asserted that individual elements in particular pictures function as signifying units (or bits of information), such as a felled tree, he fails to perceive that a linguistic structure requires a syntax, a system of relations, as well as individual words. |
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