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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book still in good condition. Cover and spine has wear but pages are free from notes and in great condition. Price cropped off back page. See images. A great book.

About the book >.>.> The father of the Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky carried a little book of reproductions of Goya’s etchings in his soldier’s knapsack throughout his terrible war and in 1959 the son wrote his fine poem I am Goya a tribute from one great artist to another and from one great people in travail to another. That poem concludes Nigel Glendinning’s magnificent book Goya and His Critics (Yale University Press New Haven and London 1977) which appeared a year after my own and which is not only a remarkably comprehensive and penetrating survey but a scholarly brilliant and immensely readable and enriching essay in its own right. From his book I learned that all unknown to me I fear and thirteen years earlier in that tradition of discourse which Francis Klingender initiated Hubert Damisch had elaborated an argument similar to my own in his essay ‘L’Art de Goya et les contradictions de l’esprit des Lumi?res’ (Utopie et institutions au XVIIIe si?cle ed. P. Francastel Paris and The Hague 1963). This was disconcerting but I also found it reassuring. Apart from correcting some errors (also indicated by Professor Glendinning) I have therefore left my text unchanged. In the final chapter I would today use different language but I would try to say exactly the same thing. What I thought about Goya then I think now; so let it stand