Parrish & Poetry: A Gift of Words And Art
By (author): "Lydia Austin Parrish, Joyce Kilmer, Rudyard Kipling, A.E. Housman, Edwin Markham, Francis William Bourdillon, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Eugene Field, William Ernest Henley, John James Ingalls, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Emily Brontë, Henry David Thoreau, Oliver W"
ISBN0876544863
ISBN139780876544860
AsinParrish & Poetry: A Gift of Words And Art
Original titleParrish and Poetry: A Gift of Words and Art
Maxfield Parrish's unmistakable paintings and illustrations captured the nation's imagination with their technical excellence and romantic quality and remain unrivaled to this day. Here, forty of Parrish's finest works are paired with poetic masterpieces: Sleeping Beauty and William Shakespeare's "Oh Mistress Mine, " The Canyon and Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty, " Dream Castles in the Sky and "The Splendor Falls" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. A brief biography of Parrish and a preface describing the relationships between the paintings and poems round out this immensely pleasurable offering.
