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- Title
The Pleasures of Looking and the Feminine Gaze in Michael Field's Sight and Song.
- Authors
CAMERON, S. BROOKE
- Abstract
A critique is presented of poems such as "La Gioconda Leonardo Da Vinci The Louvre," "L'Embarquement pour Cythera," and "The Sleeping Venus," from the book "Sight and Song" by Michel Field, the pen name of poets Edith Cooper and Katharine Bradley. Themes of the male and female gaze, music in art, and visual pleasure are discussed, as well as the ekphrastic description of European art in the poems.
- Subjects
LA Gioconda; Leonardo Da Vinci; The Louvre (Poem : Bradley); SLEEPING Venus, The (Poem); L'EMBARQUEMENT pour Cythera (Poem); FIELD, Michael, pseud.; BRADLEY, Katharine Harris, 1846-1914; COOPER, Edith Emma, 1862-1913; EKPHRASIS; MUSIC in art; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2013, Vol 51, Issue 2, p147
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2013.0012