BY HENRY NAEGELY (HENRY GAËLYN) AUTHOR OF THE MUMMER, AND OTHER POEMS' CHEAP EDITION WITH THREE ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. 1902 FUMIGATED HCL- Nov. 1982 HARVARD JAN 22 1981 'In sudore and swynke bow shalt þi mete tilye, and laboure for bi lyflode.'-Piers the Plowman. To write about Millet at this late date, coming one writers of taste and talent, may seem a rash undertaking. My excuse must be that no one was ever more deeply touched by his 'images of so much ✓ humbleness as I, and that, owing to you, no one ever had a greater oppor tunity of appreciating the true grandeur of the man and the true aim of his work. You have On one point, however, you have always remained silent. never cared to speak of the passionate attacks and the virulent hostility which his works excited formerly, and which they still excite from time to time in our day. If in this respect I have gone beyond the wise and dignified limit within which you have always kept, it is because I think that nothing proves the vitality of genius more clearly than such attacks ; |