Speaking to Pictures

A review of Peter Steele’s Plenty, a book in which each poem is faced by a colour plate of the painting or object which sparked it off. Hollander’s ecphrasis and Krieger’s ekphrasis are held in – possibly unresolvable – dialectic by Steele’s poems. The only resolution which one can find is one of wi...

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Published in:Sophia
Main Author: Hutchings, Patrick (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Netherlands 2007
In: Sophia
Year: 2007, Volume: 46, Issue: 1, Pages: 79-89
Further subjects:B VASARI Giorgio
B HAGSTRUM Jean H
B The sister arts
B Ecphrasis
B Ekphrasis
B Silent orations
B Poetry
B HOLLANDER John
B STEELE Peter
B ut pictura poesis
B KRIEGER Murray
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Summary:A review of Peter Steele’s Plenty, a book in which each poem is faced by a colour plate of the painting or object which sparked it off. Hollander’s ecphrasis and Krieger’s ekphrasis are held in – possibly unresolvable – dialectic by Steele’s poems. The only resolution which one can find is one of wit rather than of philosophy.
ISSN:1873-930X
Contains:Enthalten in: Sophia
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s11841-007-0001-z