What We Can Learn From John Martin's 'Apocalypse' at Tate Britain
Neil Simpson
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Posted 18.01.2012
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The Bard represents a deeper idea. The old prophet - the last crumbling bastion of an antediluvian way of thinking - madly attempting to stem the current of an England representing order and progress at the expense of older values. In vain does he challenge the monotonous and inevitable advance of the English army.
