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home, and entered the university of oxford without proper qualifications for a degree. nevertheless, he impressed the scholars of christ church, oxford, after he won the newdigate prize for poetry , his earliest interest. in consequence, he was awarded a degree. he published his first book, modern painters
, in , under the anonymous identity "an oxford graduate." it argued that modern landscape painters—in particular j.m.w. turner —were superior to the so-called "old masters" of the renaissance . such a claim was highly controversial, especially as turner's semi-abstract late works were being denounced...
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