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Anyone who makes it to NY might want to get to the Met Museum and leave plenty of time after the Rauschenberg exhibit to check out a major show of Samuel Palmer's work. Palmer became a friend of Blake's three years before the latter's death, and his work shows some of Blake's influence, but that's the least of it. His small watercolors and oils, his etchings, and his astonishing drawings pack tremendous power into very small amounts of space. His work anticipates Barbizon, Pre-Raphaelites and Post-Impressionism, but forget art history: the work is sui generis. Mark