Twentieth-century poetry and the visual arts /

Loizeaux, Elizabeth Bergmann.

Twentieth-century poetry and the visual arts / Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux. - Cambridge, UK : New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008. - xii, 261 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-254) and index.

Introduction : the engaging eye : ekphrasis and twentieth-century poetry -- Private lives in public places : Yeats and Durcan in Dublin's galleries -- Bystanding in Auden's "Musée" -- Women looking : the feminist ekphrasis of Marianne Moore and Adrienne Rich -- Ekphrasis in conversation : Anne Sexton and W.D. Snodgrass on Van Gogh -- Ekphrasis in collaboration : Ted Hughes's and Leonard Baskin's Cave birds : an alchemical cave drama -- Ekphrasis in the book : Rita Dove's African American museum.

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American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
English poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
Art and literature--History--United States--20th century.
Art and literature--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Ekphrasis.

PS310.A76 / L65 2008

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