The Poet Speaks of Art

Harry Rusche, English Department, Emory University. This project is designed for the students of English 205, "Introduction to Poetry."

Introductory Remarks

• W. H. Auden, "Musee des Beaux Arts"
• John Berryman, "Winter Landscape"
• Walter de la Mare, "Brueghel's Winter"
• Greg Delanty, "After Viewing 'The Bowling Match at Castlemary, Cloyne'(1847)"
• Stephen Dobyns, "The Street"
• Paul Engle, "Venus and the Lute Player"
• U. A. Fanthorpe, "Not my Best Side"
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "[The Wounded Wilderness of Morris Graves]"
• Donald Finkel, "The Great Wave: Hokusai"
• Richard Foerster, "Breughel's Harvesters"
• Allen Ginsberg, "Cezanne's Ports"
• Edward Hirsch, "Edward Hopper and the House by the Railroad"
• Randall Jarrell, "The Bronze David of Donatello"
• X. J. Kennedy, "Nude Descending a Staircase"
• Joseph Langland, "Hunters in the Snow: Brueghel"
• Mary Leader, "Girl at Sewing Machine"
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Cross of Snow"
• Derek Mahon, "St. Eustace"
• Derek Mahon, "Girls on the Bridge"
• Derek Mahon, "The Hunt by Night"
• Derek Mahon, "Courtyards in Delft"
• Edwin Markham, "The Man with the Hoe"
• Lisel Mueller, "Paul Delvaux, The Village of the Mermaids"
• Frank O'Hara, "On Seeing Larry Rivers' 'Washington Crossing the Delaware' at the Museum of Modern Art"
• W. D. Snodgrass, "Matisse: 'The Red Studio'"
• Cathy Song, "Girl Powdering Her Neck"
• John Stone, "Three for the Mona Lisa"
• John Stone, "Early Sunday Morning"
• John Stone, "American Gothic"
• John Stone, "The Forest Fire"
• Nancy Sullivan, "Number 1 by Jackson Pollack (1948)"
• May Swenson, "The Tall Figures of Giacometti"
• Wislawa Szymborska, "Two Monkeys by Brueghel"
• William Carlos Williams, "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"
• William Carlos Williams, "The Hunters in the Snow"
• William Carlos Williams, "The Adoration of the Kings"
• William Carlos Williams, "Peasant Wedding"
• William Carlos Williams, "Haymaking"
• William Carlos Williams, "The Corn Harvest"
• William Carlos Williams, "The Wedding Dance in the Open Air"
• William Carlos Williams, "The Parable of the Blind"
• William Carlos Williams, "Children's Games"
• William Carlos Williams, "Classic Scene"
• William Carlos Williams, "The Great Figure"
• William Carlos Williams, "The Dance"

Additional Readings