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Here is another packaging print. This one shows Bridge ELR-XTD Structure 20 on Cornwall Road (N) between Charing Cross and Waterloo East, South East London. The road that leads off to the left is Sandell Street SE1. The road under the bridge is Cornwall Road.

The print is made using the intaglio process. The plate is a milk carton.

Here is the plate, front and back:

The plate is made by peeling away the metallic substance inside the milk carton, then painting it with shellac to make it stronger. I describe the process in this post.

I used traditional etching ink, “Shop mix – Bone Black” from Intaglio Printmaker, whose shop, as it happens, is not far from this railway bridge.

Here’s a video of the print being…

The most living thing in Keats’s poetry is the recreation of sensuous beauty, first as a source of delight for its own sake, then as a symbol of the life of the mind and the emotions. Speculated and philosophical interests always formed the major part of Shelley’s experience and the young Wordsworth for a time was hag – ridden by them: there is almost no trace of this in Keats. Keats did not like to foster abstract thought in himself and his poetry. He cared little for it. In fact, he resented intellectual truths which make demands upon the mind without being verifiable in immediate experience. Keats differs from Shelley on the point of intellectualization of his poetry and his advice against it and the other is his opinion about Truth coming through Beauty.

David Daiches, in his book Critical Approaches to Literature, Longman, 1977, gives a lengthy explanation of…

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~Sunnyside