Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery
- Author / Editor
- Heffernan, James A. W.
Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery
- Published
- Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
- Physical Description
- xii, 249 pp.
- Description
- Surveys "how painting and sculpture have been represented by poets ranging from Homer's time to our own," focusing on Homer, Ovid, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer and Gower, Spenser and Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Browning, Auden, William Carlos Williams, and John Ashbery.
- Recurrent topics include the tensions between silent and verbal representation, the gendering of ekphrasis, and the enduring nature of the device.
- Heffernan briefly treats the ekphrasis at the beginning of HF and examines at greater length the temples of Venus in KnT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Knight and His Tale.