Painting and sculpture have inspired great poetry, but so also have photography, calligraphy, tapestry and folk art. Included here are poems celebrating Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa", Monet's "Waterlilies" and Grant Wood's "American Gothic"; well-known poems such as Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and Auden's "Musee de Beaux-Arts", Homer's immortal account of the forging of the Shield of Achilles and Garcia Lorca's breathtaking ode to the surreal paintings of Salvador Dali. Allen Ginsberg writes. ..
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