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The portrait, as a literary genre, is a written description or analysis of a person or thing. A written portrait often gives deep insight, and offers an analysis that goes far beyond the superficial. It is considered a parallel to pictorial portraiture. The imitation of painting is apparent in the name of the genre itself, which is a painting term.
Portrait of a Man (Baldung) Portrait of a Man (Frans Hals, Frick) Portrait of a Man (Parmigianino) Portrait of a Man with a Glove; Portrait of a Man Holding Gloves; Man in a Hammock; Portrait of a Man in a Red Hat; Portrait of a Man in a Red Suit; Man on a Balcony; Man with a Beer Jug; Man with a Glove; A Man with a Quilted Sleeve; Portrait of ...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the second novel of Irish writer James Joyce, published in 1916. A Künstlerroman written in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus , Joyce's fictional alter ego, whose surname alludes to Daedalus , Greek mythology 's consummate craftsman.
Pope's Essay on Man and Moral Epistles were designed to be the parts of a system of ethics which he wanted to express in poetry. Moral Epistles has been known under various other names including Ethic Epistles and Moral Essays. On its publication, An Essay on Man received great admiration throughout Europe.
The Spirit of the Age (full title The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits) is a collection of character sketches by the early 19th century English essayist, literary critic, and social commentator William Hazlitt, portraying 25 men, mostly British, whom he believed to represent significant trends in the thought, literature, and politics of his time.
1916 James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [1] 1918 Wyndham Lewis's Tarr; 1920 F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise; 1928 Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness; 1929 Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel; 1933 Malcolm Lowry's Ultramarine; 1936 George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying; 1939 John Fante's Ask the Dust
Self-portrait; Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery: the portrait is the subject of a long poem in a poetry collection by Ashbery, both the poem and the collection of the same name. The book won all three of the major prizes awarded to collections by American poets.
Years later, Ashbery developed mixed feelings about the title poem of Self-Portrait, finding it to be too much like an essay and too remote in style from the rest of his body of work. [72] In March 2005, the Academy of American Poets included it in a list of 31 "Groundbreaking Books" of American poetry.