From: LouisFors <LouisFors@aol.com>
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In a message dated 98-03-28 02:42:26 EST, Charley Kehoe wrote, exploring a
possible relationship between ED and the Hudson River school of painters:
:
<big snip>
> perhaps ED uses skies as the Eternal and really fundamentaly
>  unchanged zone that comes full circle every month/year-while what goes on
>  below is always transitory and never fully replicated; and perhaps has to
be
>  explained in that context. Thunder, lightning, and storms, often appear as
>  actors -or maybe stage managers-to set and clear away the scene she
sketches
>  for us.
>  
>  If you've seen much of this group's works, then these ED lines might 
> resonate:
>  
>  On this long storm the rainbow rose,
>  On this late morn the sun;
>  The clouds, like listless elephants,
>  horizons straggled down."
>  
>  Charley Kehoe
>  
I can't contribute with answers to the questions you raise about the possible
relationship between ED and the Hudson River school of painters.  I find the
idea fascinating, however.  I wonder, too, even if ED was not well acquainted
with the Hudson River School, if the cognitive people (Margaret Freeman, for
example) have gotten into searching out major metaphors of a time and place
that cut across all art forms?  I suppose scholars who study the history of
ideas could speak of whether metaphors inherent in ED's work and in the work
of the Hudson River types had similarities.  I think you are talking about
metaphors, at an abstract level, aren't you.  

Louis Forsdale