Taken In Faith: Poems

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Contents I. Promontory Hills Coast Hillside  The Pool  Subjectivity  Red-Tailed Hawk  Nature Note: The California Poison Oak  Elegy at Beaverhead County, Montana  Point Lobos,   The Return  Holy Sonnets  Error Pursued  The Romantic Eros  Autumn Drought  Celebration  Visible and Invisible  Three Poems from Michelangelo  Degrees of Shade  Indecision  Good Friday  The Gift  For an End  On the Two Marys in a Fresco of the Crucifixion  On Emily Dickinson  For Edgar Bowers  Melvilliana  ix You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. Original Sin  Sierra Nevada Hike  Epigrams  Literary Theorist  On a Painting by Todd Price of the th Michigan Infantry on Little Round Top, July ,   II. Crossing the Pedregal Lemuel Shaw’s Meditation  Melville’s Letter to William Clark Russell  Alike and Yet Unlike: General Richard Taylor Writes to Henry Adams  Crossing the Pedregal  III. Bright Fictions On an Early Cycladic Harpist (– B.C.) in the J. Paul Getty Museum  On an Early Cycladic Harpist ( B.C.) in the Archaeological Museum in Athens  On an Attic Red-Figured Amphora ( B.C.) by the “Berlin Painter” in the Metropolitan Museum  On the Jamb-Statues of the Portail Royal () of Chartres Cathedral  On the Virgin and Child Carved in Oak (Auvergne, –) in the Metropolitan Museum  On Dieric Bouts’s Virgin and Child () in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor  On Dürer’s Etching of Pilate Washing His Hands ()  On Breughel the Elder’s The Harvesters () in the Metropolitan Museum  x You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. On Caravaggio’s Conversion of St. Paul () in Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome  On Rembrandt’s Etching of Joseph Telling His Dream  On Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait () in the Frick Museum  On Vermeer’s Young Woman with a Water Jug () in the Metropolitan Museum  On Watteau’s Pilgrimage to Cythera () in the Louvre  On Jan van Huysum’s Vase of Flowers () in the J. Paul Getty Museum  On G. B. Tiepolo’s Etching Adoration of the Magi () in the Stanford Museum  On Goya’s Duel with Cudgels (ca. ), a “Black Painting” in the Prado  On the Southworth and Hawes Daguerreotype of Massachusetts Supreme Court Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw ()  On Fitz Hugh Lane’s Approaching Storm, Owl’s Head,   On Erastus Salisbury Field’s The Israelites Crossing the Red Sea (?)  On Winslow Homer’s Moonlight on Water () in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art  On Blakelock’s Moonlit Landscape in the de Young Museum  On Gary Melchers’s Writing () in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art  On Leonard Baskin’s Etching Benevolent Angel  Notes  Afterword by Timothy Steele  xi You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. Taken in Faith You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. ...