Studio: international art (7.1896)

The IVork of A If red East

parallel in Literature. In the art of
Writing, as in the art of Painting,
movement and change (which is not
always advance) is made, broadly
speaking, upon one of two lines, or,
if we prefer to put it so, in one of
two manners, and we may call them,
respectively, the manner of Burns
and the manner of Sir Walter
Scott. Both, remember, were inno-
vators. If either man had been
strictly or simply conservative, he
could have had no place in my
parallel. One of these men—
Burns—was independent of the
classics, of the great traditions; he
expressed his personal conception
in ways altogether his own. The
other—Sir Walter Scott—whether
in his prose or in his verse, took
heed of the great method, and ex-
pressed his romantic conception, in
some measure at least, on Classic
or accepted lines. He did it with
something of the style that means
and implies Culture—the full re-
ception in himself of those achieve-
ments of the Past, the lesson of
which it is generally but an error
to reject. The parallel, or some-
thing of the parallel to Burns, is to
be found in Constable. And—if I
may name a modern and a contem-
porary after these great names—
"an autumn morning" from a painting uv Alfred east, r.i. something of a parallel to Sir Walter
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