Benjamin Robert Haydon would doubtless be flattered, though a bit surprised, by his inclusion in a volume on Romantic prose writers. His fame rests first, as he would have wanted, on his reputation as...
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In the following excerpt from his introduction to the 1926 edition of Haydon's Autobiography, Huxley insists that Haydon wasted his creative energy on painting when it was as a writer—in...
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In the following essay, Olney discusses Haydon's influence on the young John Keats during the mid-1810s, when the two men shared an intense devotion to art. Haydon encouraged Keats to undertake...
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In the following essay, Lang portrays Haydon as a reformer in the field of the arts, focusing in particular on the painter's lobbying for increased public support of the arts and his belief tha...
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In the following essay, George, using as his source W. B. Pope's Diary of Benjamin Robert Haydon (1960-63), the first publication of the full text of Haydon's Journals, focuses on Haydon...
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In the following essay, Kearney attempts to prove that Haydon was the author of several anonymous letters and articles published in the Hunts' paper The Examiner during the early 1800s, using e...
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In the following essay, Porter attempts to pinpoint the reason why Haydon felt the intense need to chronicle his life in his autobiography and in his journals.
On June 22, 1846, moments before he c...
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Benjamin Robert Haydon
Critical Essay by Aldous Huxley
