Who Has Seen The Wind? An Illustrated Collection of Poetry for Young People - Hardcover

Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847814238 ISBN 13: 9780847814237

Publisher: Rizzoli, 1993

Synopsis

Comprises a collection of forty-five well-known poems illustrated with thirty-five famous paintings.

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Review:

Little by Dorothy Aldis
Dream Song by Lewis Alexander
Looking Forward by Laurence (laurens, Lawrence) Alma-tadema
Now The Day Is Over by Sabine Baring-gould
The Lion by Hilaire Belloc
The Tyger [tiger], Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
Thanksgiving Day by Lydia Maria Child
My Dog by Marchette Chute
My Plan by Marchette Chute
The Snow by Emily Dickinson
Cats by Eleanor Farjeon
A Comparison by John Chipman Farrar
The Pasture by Robert Frost
Duck's Ditty by Kenneth Grahame
The Way Through The Woods by Rudyard Kipling
The Children's Hour by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Patterns by Amy Lowell
The Baby, Fr. At The Back Of The North Wind by George Macdonald
Jamaica Market by Agnes Maxwell-hall
We Fish by Herman Melville
Cat by Mary Britton Miller
In Honor Of Taffy Topaz by Christopher Darlington Morley
Little Bo-peep (2) by Mother Goose
The Cat by Ogden Nash
The Lion by Ogden Nash
Childhood Painting Lesson by Henry Rago
Sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 72 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
At The Seaside by Robert Louis Stevenson
Auntie's Skirts by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Cow by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Land Of Counterpane by Robert Louis Stevenson
Where Go The Boats? by Robert Louis Stevenson
I Had But Fifty Cents by Anonymous
Kindness To Animals by Anonymous
The Night Was Growing Cold by Anonymous
Velvet Shoes by Elinor Wylie
The Cat And The Moon by William Butler Yeats
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

From School Library Journal:

Grade 3 Up-- A collection of 37 well-known poems, illustrated with famous artwork from the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Among the poets represented are Blake, Stevenson, Longfellow, Dickinson, Nash, Yeats, Frost, and Kipling. Artistic selections include the works of Cassatt, Homer, Gauguin, Manet, Pissarro, Rackham, and, repeatedly, Monet. In a slightly condescending introduction, the editor points out the similarities between poems and paintings--``Each one takes a very special moment and freezes it in time.'' The idea of pairing poetry with museum art is not new--it was done very successfully in Talking to the Sun (Metropolitan Museum/Holt, 1985). But unlike that collection, which provided startling and wonderful juxtapositions that enhanced the meaning of both words and picture, this collection's pairings are often obvious, sometimes trite, and--with few exceptions--do not create anything new to transcend the parts. They are even confusing at times--in the Monet that illustrates ``Who Has Seen the Wind,'' there is no evidence of any disturbance of the air. Overall, this book is more likely to appeal to adults than children, as it presents an old-fashioned, sentimental view of childhood. --Annette Curtis Klause, Montgomery County Department of Public Libraries, MD
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rizzoli
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0847814238
• ISBN 13: 9780847814237
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 64
• Editor: Kathryn Sky-Peck