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  • The poet-painter David Jones (1895-1974) became very deaf in later life.

    Daniel Krotz: On Deafness 2009

  • That is why he is most often referred to mystic poet-painter William Blake (1757-1827).

    The Prophet : A Rare Touch of Mysticism 2008

  • This poet-painter (and daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes) conceived of this project as one poem and one painting each for each year of her life (she was 45 years old when the project was completed).

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • Friedmann and his friends were excited by the avant-garde spirit of poet-painter Lajos Kassak, whose generous view of humanity contrasted with Horthys nationalism.

    The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

  • Friedmann and his friends were excited by the avant-garde spirit of poet-painter Lajos Kassak, whose generous view of humanity contrasted with Horthys nationalism.

    The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

  • The lobby's showpiece was the mural-sized reproduction of Miyamoto Musashi's famous, lost painting of sunrise over Edo Castle, commissioned from the master warrior poet-painter by none other than Japan's third Shogun, Iemitsu Tokugawa.

    Time Scout Asprin, Robert 1995

  • But some Daniel was found wise enough to come to judgment, and pronounce the poet-painter mad; whereupon society at once composed itself, and went on its way rejoicing.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the poet-painter, Holman Hunt (best remembered by his famous picture "The Light of the World") and others, formed what was known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, to instruct public taste in creative work in art and literature.

    Queen Victoria E. Gordon Browne

  • Hans Memling, with the spirit of a real poet, had painted his sweet visions, and to-day it is not for the opulent merchants who added fame and wealth to their city in their time, but for this poet-painter, Memling, that we venerate the ancient and stately city of Bruges.

    Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer Jennie Ellis Keysor

  • Heaven's own messenger to the dreaming poet-painter.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

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