Twentieth-Century Poetry and the Visual Arts (Paperback)

Introduction: the engaging eye: ekphrasis in twentieth-century poetry; 1. Private lives in public places: Yeats and Durcan in Dublin's galleries; 2. Bystanding in Auden's 'Musee'; 3. Women looking: the feminist ekphrasis of Marianne Moore and Adrienne Rich; 4. Ekphrasis in conversation: Anne Sexton and W. D. Snodgrass on Van Gogh; 5. Ekphrasis in collaboration: Ted Hughes and Leonard Baskin's Cave Birds: An Alchemical Cave Drama; 6. Ekphrasis in the book: Rita Dove's African American museum.