Who Has Seen The Wind? An Illustrated Collection of Poetry for Young People. This item is unavailable.Who Has Seen The Wind? An Illustrated Collection of Poetry for Young People

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

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
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