Poets on painters : essays on the art of painting by Twentieth-century poets /
edited by J.D. McClatchy.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, �1988.
- 1 online resource (xvii, 362 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Includes bibliographical references.
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 L�eger / Kenneth Rexroth -- On poetry and painting, with a thought on music / Howard Nemerow -- 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 / James Merrill -- Fragments of a "Robin" / Richard Howard -- Crossing the tracks to Hopper's world / Mark Strand -- Landscape's empire / John Hollander.
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Painting, Modern--Themes, motives.--20th century Art and literature--United States. Art and literature--Great Britain. ART--History--General. Art and literature. Painting, Modern--Themes, motives.