The White Visitation

[Paul Mackin]

On May 14, 2006, at 12:53 AM, jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> On 14/05/2006:
>
>> Walpole's house was not an orgy of self-expression. No Palladian  
>> house
>> was.
>
> What about if it has been "added to by each succeeding owner" (83)?

As always, anything is possible.  Suppose Thomas Jefferson had died  
in 1775 and some untalented heir, rather than Jefferson himself,  had  
overseen those forty years of enlargements to the original Palladian  
styled "Monticello?"  Might have turned out god-awful.


>
> "From the Palladian house down in its resentful and twilit  
> hollow ... " (73)
>
> best
>