Picture and poetry, 1560-1620
Subtitle: relations between literature and the visual arts in the English Renaissance
By: Lucy Gent.
Publisher: Hall
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Lemington Spa, Warwickshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Art and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Art and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Visual perception in literature.; Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics); Art, Renaissance -- England.; Renaissance -- England.; Art, English.
Description: Not just another exercise in analogy between the different arts, this book is a genuinely interdisciplinary study designed to show how in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries 'the way English poets looked at pictures influenced in some respects the way they wrote their poetry'. -- Book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.