Lectures on Architecture and Painting, Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853

part corresponds in its aim and rank, as compared with other literature,

to the porcelain shepherds and shepherdesses on a chimney-piece as compared with great works of sculpture.

90. Of course all good poetry, descriptive of rural life, is essentially pastoral, or has the effect of the pastoral on the minds of men living in cities; but the class of poetry which I mean, and wh...