Product Description: This study examines the role of indeterminacy - what Chesterton called «the final skepticism which can find no floor to the universe» - in nineteenth-century British art. Beginning in 1806 with Wordsworth's questioning of the essential ground and companionableness of things and concluding with Hardy's dramatization in Wessex Poems of the treacherous relationship between the word and the image, 'If Mine Had Been the Painter's Hand' chronicles the growing sense of the antagonism of things as evidenced in the irreconcilable tension between the visual and the verbal...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Starzyk, Lawrence J.