My Own Places: Poems on John Constable

by Don Kerr

But I should paint my own places best. Painting is but another word for feeling. I associate my careless boyhood to all that lies on the banks of the Stour. They made me a painter. . . October 23, 1821, John Constable to John Fisher

My Own Places is a collection of poems inspired by the works of British landscape painter John Constable. Constable's well-known reluctance to travel far from his home gave his paintings a distinctly regional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552381706
• ISBN13: 9781552381700
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 6.9"