TENDERNESS IN TITE STREETTO THE POET:
TO THE POET:
The World.
OSCAR—I have read your exquisite article in thePall Mall.
Nothing is more delicate, in the flattery of “the Poet” to “the Painter,” than thenaïvetéof “the Poet” in the choice of his Painters—Benjamin West and Paul Delaroche!
You have pointed out that “the Painter’s” mission is to find “le beau dans l’horrible,” and have left to “the Poet” the discovery of “l’horrible” dans “le beau!”
J. A. McN. WHISTLER.
CHELSEA.