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- description of a visual work of art, either real or imagined. Thus, "an ekphrastic poem is a vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art...
- Elder, was the inspiration for two of the 20th century's most notable ekphrastic English-language poems, "Musée des Beaux Arts" by W. H. Auden and "Landscape...
- particular the Highway of Death. His poem, A Cold Coming, began with an ekphrastic representation of a graphic photograph taken on Highway 8 by photojournalist...
- American Alma mater Boston University (BA) Johns Hopkins University (MFA) Emory University (PhD) Genre American poetry, Ekphrastic poetry Spouse Ryan Hagerty...
- ISBN 84-03-88005-7. Murillo's painting The Spanish Page is the subject of an ekphrastic poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon in Fisher's Drawing Room S**** Book,...
- compared Chang's conceit with Fred Moten's idea of ekphrastic translation, in which an ekphrastic work s****s to reach the essence of its point of inspiration...
- prose poetry. She is also renowned for her work in the scholarly field of ekphrastic poetry and is celebrated for coining the terms dark poetry—for poetry...
- won the Nightboat Books Prize for Poetry in 2014. Sheep Machine is an ekphrastic work written in response to Leslie Thornton's film of the same name. It...
- Byzantine literature of the Justinian era refers to the period of Byzantine literature from the accession of Emperor Justinian I in 527 to the rise of...
- The painting is the subject of modernist poet William Carlos Williams's ekphrastic poem "The Hunter in The Snow". The surviving Months of the Year cycle...