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  • Preface

  • Rob Harris, Magdalen College, Oxford
  • Book:
    After Impressionism
    Published online:
    22 December 2025
    Print publication:
    18 December 2025, pp 1-6
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    This Preface begins with a passage from Pierre Auguste-Renoir’s diary, in which he records the following aphorism: ‘Everything that I call grammar on primary notions of Art can be summed up in one word: Irregularity.’ Taking Renoir’s idea of irregularity as a starting-point, this chapter sketches out the historical origins of impressionism and gives a brief outline of its formal and thematic variety, before gesturing to its significance as a cultural and stylistic reference point for writers at the turn of the century, including the group of British, Irish and American poets at the heart of the present study.