Critic and novelist Theophile Gautier reflected on the Romantic era, writing: "In those days painting and poetry fraternized. The artists read the poets, and the poets visited the artists. We found Shakespeare, Dante, Lord Byron, and Walter Scott in the studio as well as the study. There were as many splashed of color as there were blots of ink in the margins of those beautiful books which we endlessly perused. Imagination, already excited, was further fired by reading those foreign works, so rich in color, so free and powerful in fantasy."
The following painting is by famous British poet William Blake.
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| William Blake's Ancient of Days (1794) |
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