CENTAUR IDYLL

BY CHARLES RICKETTS

The tonal image is a small horizontal picture tipped in at the top centre of the page. A man and a centaur lie together unclothed in the center of a barren landscape of dark ground. The man is lying on his back with his knees slightly bent. His head is positioned upwards as he meets the eye of the centaur behind him. The centaur is sitting behind and slightly to his left and is looking closely upon the man’s face. The centaur’s upper body is exposed, and their animalistic legs are folded tightly together.

MLA citation:

Ricketts, Charles. “Centaur Idyll.” The Venture: an Annual of Art and Literature, vol. 2, 1905, p. 105. Venture Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2019-2022. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2022, https://1890s.ca/vv2-ricketts-idyll

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