Poets on Paintings

Poets on Paintings: A Bibliography by Robert D. Denham is a McFarland reference work documenting the field of ekphrasis, the practice of describing pictorial art in words. It catalogues roughly 2,500 poems on paintings arranged by publication type and by poet, plus some 2,000 entries covering the secondary literature.

Structured in two parts, primary ekphrastic poetry and critical scholarship, the bibliography spans anthologies, single-painter and single-poet volumes, journals and websites, and extends beyond painting to sculpture, music, photography, and film. Denham, a professor of English emeritus at Roanoke College, provides a comprehensive research tool for scholars of poetry and visual art.