Title: The Modern Portrait Poem
Subtitle: From Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ezra Pound
Description: A study of portraiture in poetry and the visual arts from the 1860's through early modernism, focusing on the impact of the Rossetti circle on T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Amy Lowell, and other American poets.  In close readings of poems and paintings, Dickey examines the continuities between Aestheticism and modernism.
Subjects: Modern Art, Portraits, History and criticism, Influence, Modern Poetry, History, Aestheticism, Interiority, Poetry, modern, history and criticism, Art, modern
People: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Swinburne, James McNeill Whistler, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), William Carlos Williams, Amy Lowell, Edgar Lee Masters, E. E. Cummings, Wyndham Lewis
Time periods: 1860-1925