Art comes in many shapes and sizes and many different forms. And one person's art is often someone else's object of derision.But what we can all agree on is that Art exists, that it's something perhaps unique to humankind but very definitely evokes a deep reaction whether of 'wow!' or 'what?' In this volume we take Art as our subject and have it reviewed and explored by other Artists, by Classic Poets.True Art ignites an individual response or a collective awareness. Our DNA seems to cultivate that. When we engage with Art the results are at times as surprising as they are interesting.In the words of Keats, Shakespeare, Wharton, Chatterton and very many others Art is seen and understood both as that individual reaction and a collective experience. Art is where it's at.01 - The Poetry of Art - An Introduction02 - The Man With the Blue Guitar by Wallace Stevens03 - Botticlelli's Madonna in the Louvre by Edith Wharton04 - Before a Painting by James Weldon Johnson05 - Sonnet 20 - A Woman's Face with Nature's Own Hand Painted by William Shakespeare06 - Sonnet 24 - Mine Eye Hath Played the Painter and Hath Steeled by William Shakespeare07 - Sonnet 83 - I Never Saw That You Did Painting Need by William Shakespeare08 - Art and Heart by Ella Wheeler Wilcox09 - Colors by Stephen Vincent Benet10 - I Have Colours in My Head by Daniel Sheehan11 - I Would Not Paint a Picture by Emily Dickinson12 - To the Painter, To Draw Him a Picture by Robert Herrick13 - On Mr Alcock of Bristol, an Excellent Miniature Painter by Thomas Chatterton14 - On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People by Gerard Manley Hopkins15 - Portrait d'une Femme by Ezra Pound16 - To a Beautiful Female Portrait by Henry Alford17 - The Portrait by Ford Madox Ford18 - Her Portrait Immortal by Richard Le Gallienne19 - My Last Duchess by Robert Browning20 - Portrait of My Father As a Young Man by Rainer Maria Rilke21 - On a Portrait of Dante by Giotto by James Russell Lowell22 - Written Under a Portrait of Keats by John Boyle O'Reily23 - On Seeing the Elgin Marbles For the First Time by John Keats24 - Jade by Edith Wharton25 - Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley26 - An Inscription for Zheng Shujin's Painting by Qiu Jin27 - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus28 - Rome - Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter, April 1887 by Thomas Hardy29 - How Many Paltry Foolish Painted Things by Michael Drayton30 - To the Painter of an Ill Drawn Picture of Cleone by Anne Kingsmill-Finch31 - An Art Critic by Ambrose Bierce32 - A Portrait by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Love. What is love?The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive. Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal, felt but only seen in a glance, a look, a fleeting touch. Part of Love’s beauty is perhaps in the fact that the question never can be adequately answered; its ephemeral, a chimera of the heart and only felt. Our own experiences are unique and personal to ourselves and of little help defining it for another.Love is perhaps best expressed through poetry. As Plato said 2500 years ago “At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet”. Writing a love poem for ones’ partner is seen as the most romantic of gestures. It opens our hearts to another's. Lovers love.Here, in this volume history’s greatest poets convey thoughts, feelings and sentiments of love to you in quick (or bite-size) conversations of verse that can slip into your day and your partner's heart.
