Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!

-Keats,John
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'Ode on a Grecian Urn', stanza 5.

No writer before the middle of the19th century wrote about the working classes other thanasgrotesques oras pastoral decorations. Then when they were given the vote certain writers started to suck up to them.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  'TheArt of Fiction XXX: EvelynWaugh', in The Paris Review, no.8, Summer/Fall.