Taken in faith : poems / Helen Pinkerton ; afterword by Timothy Steele.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinkerton, Helen.

Contributor:

Steele, Timothy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1967, Yvor Winters wrote of Helen Pinkerton, "she is a master of poetic style and of her material. No poet in English writes with more authority." Unfortunately, in 1967 mastery of poetic style was not, by and large, considered a virtue, and Pinkerton's finely crafted poems were neglected in favor of more improvisational and flashier talents. Though her work won the attention and praise of serious readers, who tracked her poems as they appeared in such journals as The Paris Review, The Sewanee Review, and The Southern Review, her verse has never been available in a trade book. Taken in Fai

Contents:

Coast Hillside; The Pool; Subjectivity; Red-Tailed Hawk; Nature Note: The California Poison Oak; Elegy at Beaverhead County, Montana; Point Lobos, 1950; The Return; Holy Sonnets; Error Pursued; The Romantic Eros; Autumn Drought; Celebration; Visible and Invisible; Three Poems from Michelangelo; Degrees of Shade; Indecision; Good Friday; The Gift; For an End; On the Two Marys in a Fresco of the Crucifixion; On Emily Dickinson; For Edgar Bowers; Melvilliana; Original Sin; Sierra Nevada Hike; Epigrams; Literary Theorist

On a Painting by Todd Price of the 16th Michigan Infantry on Little Round Top, July 2, 1863Lemuel Shaw's Meditation; Melville's Letter to William Clark Russell; Alike and Yet Unlike: General Richard Taylor Writes to Henry Adams; Crossing the Pedregal; On an Early Cycladic Harpist (2600-2500 B.C.) in the J. Paul Getty Museum; On an Attic Red-Figured Amphora (490 B.C.) by the ""Berlin Painter"" in the Metropolitan Museum; On the Jamb-Statues of the Portail Royal (1150) of Chartres Cathedral; On Dieric Bouts's Virgin and Child (1460) in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor

On Dürer's Etching of Pilate Washing His Hands (1512)On Breughel the Elder's The Harvesters (1565) in the Metropolitan Museum; On Caravaggio's Conversion of St. Paul (1600) in Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome; On Rembrandt's Etching of Joseph Telling His Dream (1636); On Rembrandt's Self-Portrait (1658) in the Frick Museum; On Vermeer's Young Woman with a Water Jug (1658) in the Metropolitan Museum; On Watteau's Pilgrimage to Cythera (1717) in the Louvre; On Jan van Huysum's Vase of Flowers (1722) in the J. Paul Getty Museum

On G. B. Tiepolo's Etching Adoration of the Magi (1753) in the Stanford MuseumOn Goya's Duel with Cudgels (ca. 1820), a "Black Painting" in the Prado; On the Southworth and Hawes Daguerreotype of Massachusetts Supreme Court Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw (1851); On Fitz Hugh Lane's Approaching Storm, Owl's Head, 1860; On Erastus Salisbury Field's The Israelites Crossing the Red Sea (1863?); On Winslow Homer's Moonlight on Water (1895) in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; On Blakelock's Moonlit Landscape in the de Young Museum

On Gari Melchers's Writing (1905) in the Los Angeles County Museum of ArtOn Leonard Baskin's Etching Benevolent Angel; Notes; Afterword

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780804040082

0804040087

OCLC:

606845704