Poets on painters : essays on the art of painting by Twentieth-century poets

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Poets on painters : essays on the art of painting by Twentieth-century poets

edited by J.D. McClatchy

University of California Press, c1988

  • : pbk.

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What are poets looking at, looking for, when they walk into a room of pictures? Poets on Painters attempts to answer this question by bringing together, for the first time, essays by modern American and British poets about painting. The poets bring to their task a fresh eye and a freshened language, vivid with nuance and color and force.

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Introduction Art and Ideas William Butler Yeats Vorticism Ezra Pound A Matisse and Painting in the American Grain William Carlos Williams Robert Andrew Parker Marianne Moore From Introduction to These Paintings D. H. Lawrence Pictures Gertrude Stein The Relations between Poetry and Painting Wallace Stevens Calm Even in the Catastrophe W.H.Auden Painters as Writers Stephen Spender Foreword to an Exhibit E. E. Cummings Gregorio Valdes Elizabeth Bishop The Heroic Object and Fernand Uger Kenneth Rexroth On Poetry and Painting, with a Thought on Music Howard Nemerov Against Abstract Expressionism Randall Jarrell Jackson Pollock Frank O'Hara A Note on Franz Kline Robert Creeley An Art of Wondering Robert Duncan Balthus Guy Davenport Respect for Things as They Are John Ashbery The Painting of Jane Freilicher James Schuyler The Poet as Painter Charles Tomlinson The Hanged Man and the Dragonfly Ted Hughes Notes on Corot 3 James Merrill Fragments of a "Rodin" Richard Howard Crossing the Tracks to Hopper's World Mark Strand Landscape's Empire John Hollander

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