Acknowledgments
Introduction
Preface to the Gallery
The Gallery
Jacopo Sadoleto (1477-1547), "The Poem of Jacobus Sadoletus on the Statue of Laocoon"/Anon., Laocoon
Pietro Aretino (1492-1556), "Sonnet"/Titian, Portrait of Francesco Maria della Rovere, Duke of Urbino
Allen Tate, "Sonnet"/William Lescaze, Portrait of Hart Crane
Richard Howard, "Nadar"/Adrien Tournachon, Portrait of Nadar
Ben Jonson (1572-1637), "The Mind of the Frontispiece to a Book"/Renold Elstrack, Engraved Title Page of Sir Walter Ralegh's History of the World
Sir Richard Lovelace (1618-58), "To My Worthy Friend Mr. Peter Lilly"/Sir Peter Lely, Charles I and the Duke of York
Samuel Rogers (1763-1855), "To the Fragment of a Statue of Hercules"/Anon., Torso Belvedere
William Wordsworth (1770-1850), "Elegiac Stanzas"/Sir George Beaumont, Piel Castle in a Storm
Washington Allston (1779-1843), "On the Group of the Three Angels Before the Tent of Abraham, by Rafaelle, in the Vatican"/Raphael, Abraham and the Angels
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 4/Anon., Apollo Belvedere
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), "On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery"/Anon. (no longer attributed to Leonardo), The Head of Medusa
Joseph Rodman Drake (1795-1820), "The National Painting"/John Trumbull, The Declaration of Independence
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82), "For 'Our Lady of the Rocks'"/Leonardo da Vinci, Virgin of the Rocks
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "For a Venetian Pastoral"/Titian, Concert Champetre
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61), "Hiram Powers' Greek Slave"/Hiram Powers, The Greek Slave
Robert Browning (1812-89), "The 'Moses' of Michael Angelo"/Michelangelo, Moses
Ford Madox Brown (1821-93), "The Last of England"/Ford Madox Brown, The Last of England
Charles-Rene Marie Leconte de Lisle (1818-94), "Venus de Milo"/Anon., Venus de Milo
Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), "Gypsies on the Move"/Jacques Callot, Les Bohemiens
Emma Lazarus (1849-87), "The New Colossus"/Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, Liberte eclairant le monde
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), "Before the Mirror"/J. A. M.
Whistler, Symphony in White no. 2: The Little White Girl
Herman Melville (1819-91), "The Temeraire"/J. M. W. Turner, The Fighting "Temeraire"
John James Piatt (1835-1917), "To the Statue on the Capitol"/Thomas Crawford, Columbia, Goddess of Liberty
James Thomson ("B.V.") (1834-82), from The City of Dreadful Night/Albrecht Durer, Melencolia
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "For Spring, by Sandro Botticelli"/Sandro
Botticelli, Primavera
Walt Whitman (1819-92), "Death's Valley"/George Inness, The Valley of the Shadow of Death
Edwin Markham (1852-1940), "The Man with the Hoe"/J. B. Millet, L'Homme a la houe
Edith Wharton (1862-1937), "Mona Lisa"/Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa
Robert Bridges (1844-1930), from The Testament of Beauty, Book III/Titian, Sacred and Profane Love
Walter de la Mare (1873-1956), "Brueghel's Winter"/Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Hunters in the Snow
W. H. Auden (1907-73), "Musee des Beaux Arts"/Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Randall Jarrell (1914-65), "The Knight, Death, and the Devil"/Albrecht Durer, The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Anthony Hecht (1923-), "At the Frick"/Giovanni Bellini, St. Francis in Ecstasy
Robert Conquest (1917-), "The Rokeby Venus"/Velazquez, The Rokeby Venus
Richard Wilbur (1921-), "A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra"/Anon., Fountain
W. S. Merwin (1927-), "Voyage to Labrador"/Alfred Wallis, Voyage to Labrador
James Merrill (1926-), "The Charioteer of Delphi"/Anon., Charioteer
Donald Hall (1928-), "The Scream"/Edvard Munch, The Scream
Irving Feldman (1928-), "'Se Aprovechan'"/Francisco Jose Goya y Lucientes, Caprichos, no. 16
Thom Gunn (1929-), from Positives/Ander Gunn, untitled photograph
Marianne Moire (1887-1972), "Charity Overcoming Envy"/Anon., Tapestry, 15th century
W. D. Snodgrass (1926-), "Matisse: 'The Red Studio'"/Henri Matisse, The Red Studio
Daryl Hine (1937-), "Untitled"/Roger van der Weyden, Calvary
Richard Howard (1929-), "Giovanni da Fiesole on the Sublime, or Fra Angelico's 'Last Judgment'"/Fra Angelico, Last Judgment
J. D. McClatchy (1945-), "A Capriccio of Roman Ruins and Sculpture with Figures"/Giovanni Paolo Panini, Capriccio of Roman Ruins and Sculpture with Figures
David Ferry (1924-), "Cythera"/Jean-Antoine Watteau, Le Pelerinage a l'isle de Cythere
Vicki Hearne (1946-), "Gauguin's White Horse"/Paul Gauguin, Le Cheval blanc
Rosanna Warren (1953-), "Renoir"/Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party
Rachel Hadas (1948-), "Mars and Venus"/Sandro Botticelli, Mars and Venus
John Hollander (1929-), "Effet de Neige"/Claude Monet, La Route de la ferme St. Simeon
Appendix: A Selected List of Additional Ecphrastic Poems
Notes to the Introduction
Notes to the Gallery
Photography and Poetry Credits
General Index