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Time's River : The Voyage of Life in Art and Poetry
Time's River The Voyage of Life in Art and Poetry Author:Kate Farrell, National Gallery of Art Organized around The Voyage ofLife, a remarkable four-part series of paintings by the American visionary Thomas Cole, this unique anthology unites masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art with poems from around the world about life's journey. In the four sections introduced by Cole's paintings are poems about childhood (How Like... more » an Angel Came I Down!), young adulthood (Wishing for the Cloths of Heaven), Maturity (Midway through the Journey), and old age (In Age I Bud Again.) The poems come from diverse times and places and express all sorts of outlooks, circumstances and inspirations. The book's evocative pairings of poetry and art include Dante Alighieri and Winslow Homer; Pablo Neruda and Boticelli; Emily Dickinson and Berthe Morisot; Rabindranth Tagore and Marc Chagall; Christina Rosetti and Edward Hopper; Carl Sandburg and Rene Magritte; Anna Swir and Edvard Munch; Jane Kenyon and Edouard Manet: Mary Oliver and Vincent van Gogh; Matthew Arnold and JMW Turner; Walt Whitman and Claude Monet. In keeping with Cole's idea, the works are arranged so that turning the book's pages unfolds the story of growing up and older.« less