Classic Soil

Classic Soil
Author: Malcolm Hardman
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780838639665

Like Engels in south Lancashire, young Cole in North America yearns toward an ideogram of "classic perfection," "Arcadia." It was Cole, not Engels, who made the transition to a more mature view, dividing his energies, after 1844, between a radical new empiricism and an iconic transcendentalism that, together, implied an abandonment of the pseudoclassic Arcadia of adolescence."--Jacket.