Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery by James A.W. Heffernan

Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery

James A.W. Heffernan

257 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction art poetry reflective slow-paced
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Ekphrasis is the art of describing works of art, the verbal representation of visual representation. Profoundly ambivalent, ekphrastic poetry celebrates the power of the silent image even as it tries to circumscribe that power with the authority o...

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