Submitted by Dr Selby Whittingham, Aug 19, 2008 14:50

If the Turner show at the Met fails to please many, that may be because his bequest has fallen into the hands of some great bores. These prose on interminably about their minute investigations which they fondly imagine are a substitute for carrying out Turner's ideas and an improvement on Ruskin's imaginative critiques. No doubt the Spirit of the Age is inimical to a full appreciation of the Age of Romanticism. However not all today's writers on art are as dim as the dullards into whose hands Turner's legacy has had the misfortune for the last 40 years to fall.

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