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On Goya’s Duel with Cudgels (ca. ), a “Black Painting” in the Prado Uncertain light limns hills obscure and sere. Mired in quicksand thick as the atmosphere, Two unknown men, who may be son and father Or riven brothers, raise bludgeons to each other. Starkly avowed, this reign of rage and pride, Of reason’s dream become nightmare and graves, Makes time thereafter, Goya, seem prophesied: Heaven not brought down to earth as you dreamed, young, But hell raised up, an open field for knaves.  You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. ...

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