Samuel Palmer at the British Museum

Samuel Palmer at the British Museum, 21 October - 21 January. Andrew Motion is impressed with Samuel Palmer's "longing for transfiguration with a deep human involvement with life-things. Work-things. Ecology-things." An "exhilarating vision of archaic beauty" according to Simon Jenkins, also in The Guardian. "A joy from start to finish" is the verdict of Richard Dorment in The Daily Telegraph. See works by Palmer, Edward Calvert and Blake's beautiful Virgil's Pastoral engravings at the (relatively) new Corners of Paradise gallery at the V & A. Also be sure to visit the exquisite collection of neo-romantic prints in the Spirit of Place gallery next door. Spirit of Place is also the title of an excellent book on the Neo-Romantic movement in British art in the 1920's and 30's by Malcolm Yorke. Occasionally to be found in remainder bookshops.