The Pre-Raphaelites: On Abc1tv In June 2011 Comments

It was a wet and cold Sunday afternoon as Tasmania and Australia moved closer this weekend to the winter solstice just two days away. My wife usually watches Aussie rules and I write in my study. I often go downstairs to make a cup-of-coffee, have a snack, see how she is doing, wash a few dishes and have a break from my writing and reading. As I walked across the lounge-room I chanced upon the ABC1’s half hour program entitled: The Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Revolutionaries.1 I did not get to see all of it, but my whistle was whetted and the result is this prose-poem.-Ron Price with thanks to (1) ABC1,4: 30 to 5: 00 p.m.19 June 2011.

The name John Ruskin caught my ear
as this focus on the individual artist
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