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Lazarus Aaronson (18 February 1895 – 9 December 1966) was a British poet and a lecturer in
economics. As a young man, he belonged to a group of Jewish friends who are today known as the
Whitechapel Boys, many of whom later achieved fame as writers and artists. His
diction and verbal energy have been compared to those of his more renowned and innovative Whitechapel friend,
Isaac Rosenberg. Reviewers have traced influences in Aaronson's poetry from the English poet
John Keats and from Hebrew poets such as
Shaul Tchernichovsky and
Zalman Shneur. Aaronson lived most of his life in London and spent much of his working life as a
lecturer in economics at the
City of London College. In his twenties, he converted to Christianity; a large part of his poetry focused on his conversion and spiritual identity as a Jew and an
Englishman. He published three collections of poetry: Christ in the Synagogue (1930), Poems (1933), and The Homeward Journey and Other Poems (1946). Although he did not achieve widespread recognition, Aaronson gained a
cult following of dedicated readers. (
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Mound of Butter is a painting by the French realist painter Antoine Vollon completed between 1875 and 1885. A still life, it depicts a mound of butter, coloured in rich, deep yellow, with thick marks after the artist's brushwork that may be intended to suggest the marks of a butter knife. The painting is held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Painting: Antoine Vollon (image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art)
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