Portrait Gallery Features Faces Of Nation's Poets

WASHINGTON ? America often knows the names but not the faces of its great poets. Now the National Portrait Gallery is introducing dozens of 20th century poets to Washington visitors.

"Poetic Likeness: Modern American Poets" opens Friday and will be on view through April.

Curator David Ward says he wanted to open a poetry exhibit for years because it's a way America defined itself as a culture. Ward says poetry is the language we turn to when something is important.

The show opens with Walt Whitman and maps the evolution of language from the first example of free verse in "Leaves of Grass." Later, Ezra Pound and others develop a unique American voice, separate from Europe.

It explores biographies of Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, E.E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Marianne Moore and others.

• Thomas Campbell by Sir Thomas Lawrence

  from the National Portrait Gallery, London website using a special tool. ... Thomas Lawrence Category:Thomas Campbell (poet)Category:Cravats in art ...

• Shakespeare

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• Palma Vecchio - Portrait of a Poet - Google Art Project

  Portrait of a Poet | ... width 63.50 | gallery | ... Paintings of the Italian Renaissance in the National Gallery, London Category:Male long hair ...

• PG 1063Burns Naysmith

  Scottish National Portrait Gallery: This half-length portrait of Burns, framed ... and widely reproduced image of the famous Scottish poet. ...

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  description 1 Scottish National Portrait Gallery:This half-length portrait of Burns, framed ... widely reproduced image of the famous Scottish poet. ...

• Christopher Anstey with his daughter by William Hoare

  from the National Portrait Gallery, London website using a special tool. ... 18th-century poets Category:18th-century people of Great Britain ...

• Allan-Ramsay

  Scottish | poet | ... | institution National Galleries of Scotland ... 18th-century oil portraits of men at bust length Category:18th-century oil ...

• Samuel Foote by Jean Fran?ois Colson

  from the National Portrait Gallery, London website using a special tool. ... Portrait paintings of poets Category:Portrait paintings of writers ...

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