Pre-Raphaelitism: Poetry and Painting

by Lindsay Smith

This book re-assesses the significance to Pre-Raphaelitism of the fundamental relationship of poem to painting, of the visual to the verbal, to examine those aspects of the movement that account for its enduring legacy. Beginning with the profound and somewhat neglected influence of Ruskin's work upon the poets and painters, Smith focuses in particular upon the Pre-Raphaelite rehabilitation of the sister arts analogy, and an aesthetic of ekphrasis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0746308051
• ISBN13: 9780746308059
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"