Ionian Form, Venetian Tint
by
Douglas Robillard
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Throughout his professional life, Herman Melville displayed a keen interest in the visual arts. He alluded to works of art to embellish his poems and novels and made substantial use of the technique of ekphrasis, the literary description of works of visual arts, to give body to plot and character....