"i have loved england dearly and deeply since that first morning, shining and pure, the white cliffs of dover i saw rising steeply out of the sea that once made her secure." ironically it was an american poet who wrote those lines, which so perfectly sum up the special nature of dover; special because both geographically and symbolically this is the gateway to britain and that is the view that's greeted millions of visitors to our shores. hardly surprising then, that dover and the white cliffs should have provided inspiration for generations of artists working in a variety of materia...