The Modern Portrait Poem : From Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ezra Pound /

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"In The Modern Portrait Poem, Frances Dickey recovers the portrait as a poetic genre from the 1860s through the 1920s. Combining literary and art history, she examines the ways Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Swinburne, and J.M. Whistler transformed the genre of portraiture in both painting an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dickey, Frances, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Portraits.
Poetry, Modern.
Art, Modern > Influence.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Portraits > Histoire.
Portraits > History.
Poetry, Modern > History and criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Portraiture in the Rossetti circle: window, object, or mirror
  • Ezra Pound: portraiture and originality
  • T.S. Eliot: getting out of the picture
  • Contraction: from picture sonnet to epigram
  • Expansion: Ezra Pound and avant-garde portraiture
  • Pastoral mode: William Carlos Williams and nativist portraiture
  • Coda: Rossetti and E.E. Cummings.

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