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William Carlos Williams and the Ethics of Painting
By (Author) Terence Diggory
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: poetry and poets
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
750.1
Hardback
200
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
454g
In Peter Brueghel's painting The Adoration of the Kings, the depiction of Joseph and Mary suggested to William Carlos Williams a paradigm for the relationship between poem and painting, reader and text, man and woman, that he had sought throughout his life to establish: a marriage that can acknowledge and withstand infidelity. Here Terence Diggory