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Author Pinkerton, Helen.

Title Taken in faith : poems / Helen Pinkerton ; afterword by Timothy Steele
Published Athens : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 129 pages)
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Contents Machine generated contents note: Coast Hillside -- Pool -- Subjectivity -- Red-Tailed Hawk -- Nature Note: The California Poison Oak -- Elegy at Beaverhead County, Montana -- Point Lobos, 1950 -- Return -- Holy Sonnets -- Error Pursued -- Romantic Eros -- Autumn Drought -- Celebration -- Visible and Invisible -- Three Poems from Michelangelo -- Degrees of Shade -- Indecision -- Good Friday -- Gift -- For an End -- On the Two Marys in a Fresco of the Crucifixion -- On Emily Dickinson -- For Edgar Bowers -- Melvilliana -- Original Sin -- Sierra Nevada Hike -- Epigrams -- Literary Theorist -- On a Painting by Todd Price of the 16th Michigan Infantry on Little Round Top, July 2, 1863 -- Lemuel Shaw's Meditation -- Melville's Letter to William Clark Russell -- Alike and Yet Unlike: General Richard Taylor Writes to Henry Adams -- Crossing the Pedregal -- On an Early Cycladic Harpist (2600-2500 B.C.) in the J. Paul Getty Museum -- On an Early Cycladic Harpist (2500 B.C.) in the Archaeological Museum in Athens -- On an Attic Red-Figured Amphora (490 B.C.) by the "Berlin Painter" in the Metropolitan Museum -- On the Jamb-Statues of the Portail Royal (1150) of Chartres Cathedral -- On the Virgin and Child Carved in Oak (Auvergne, 1150-1200) in the Metropolitan Museum -- On Dieric Bouts's Virgin and Child (1460) in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor -- On Durer's Etching of Pilate Washing His Hands (1512) -- On Breughel the Elder's The Harvesters (1565) in the Metropolitan Museum -- On Caravaggio's Conversion of St. Paul (1600) in Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome -- On Rembrandt's Etching of Joseph Telling His Dream -- On Rembrandt's Self-Portrait (1658) in the Frick Museum -- On Vermeer's Young Woman with a Water Jug (1658) in the Metropolitan Museum -- On Watteau's Pilgrimage to Cythera (1717) in the Louvre -- On Jan van Huysum's Vase of Flowers (1722) in the J. Paul Getty Museum -- On G.B. Tiepolo's Etching Adoration of the Magi (1753) in the Stanford Museum -- On Goya's Duel with Cudgels (ca. 1820), a "Black Painting" in the Prado -- On the Southworth and Hawes Daguerreotype of Massachusetts Supreme Court Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw (1851) -- On Fitz Hugh Lane's Approaching Storm, Owl's Head, 1860 -- On Erastus Salisbury Field's The Israelites Crossing the Red Sea (1863?) -- On Winslow Homer's Moonlight on Water (1895) in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art -- On Blakelock's Moonlit Landscape in the de Young Museum -- On Gary Melchers's Writing (1905) in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art -- On Leonard Baskin's Etching Benevolent Angel
Summary In 1967, Yvor Winters wrote of Helen Pinkerton, "she is a master of poetic style and of her material. No poet in English writes with more authority." Unfortunately, in 1967 mastery of poetic style was not, by and large, considered a virtue, and Pinkerton''s finely crafted poems were neglected in favor of more improvisational and flashier talents. Though her work won the attention and praise of serious readers, who tracked her poems as they appeared in such journals as The Paris Review, The Sewanee Review, and The Southern Review, her verse has never been available in a trade book. Taken in Fa
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Subject Christian poetry.
FICTION -- General.
POETRY -- General.
Christian poetry
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002018765
ISBN 9780804040082
0804040087