Classic Poem

In 'Twenty-four the Salon bared to view
An English Hay-wain of a beauty new;
A landscape revolution was in sight,
And Constable had caught the trend aright;
That " monumental amateur" in paint,
Of work too often tentative and faint.
Then Rousseau came, a subtler style to sway,
And landscape, long awaited, had its day;
The men of 'Thirty woke to classic aim,
The French Romantics of far-shining fame!