⦠Coombs, James, ed. A Pre-Raphaelite Friendship: The Correspondence of William Holman Hunt and John Lucas Tupper (Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1986).
⦠Coombs, James, ed. A Pre-Raphaelite Friendship: The Correspondence of William Holman Hunt and John Lucas Tupper (Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1986).
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Germ text
Scholarly Commentary
IntroductionÂ
This is the second part of Tupper's essay; the first part appeared in The Germ no. 1. In this section of the essay Tupper concentrates âthe modern life subjectâ, which, he argues, is quite as âpoeticalâ as any subject drawn from literature or history.
As in the first part of the essay, this part proceeds as a set of deductions from two first principles: that Fine Art âshould regard the general happiness of manâ as its object; and that the purpose of such art is âmental excitementâ (119).
Printing HistoryÂ
First printed in The Germ no. 3, pages 117-125.