[Tim Love]

The Visual Art and Design of Famous Writers has work by Plath, cummings, Lorca, etc.

[Sharon Passmore]

Wow what a fascinating thread! Thank you, Tim. Sorry for not getting to this sooner.

It's interesting to me how some of these authors' voices are apparent in their visual art too. One that stands out in particular is e.e. cummings sense of fun in the drawing of the couple dancing. Wouldn't it be a fun puzzle to try to match the art to the writer?

[ChrisGeorge]

Originally Posted by Tim Love

The Visual Art and Design of Famous Writers has work by Plath, cummings, Lorca, etc.

Hi Tim et al.

The Edgar Allan Poe alleged self-portrait as well as the one of his childhood love, Sarah Elmira Royster, are dubious at best and are probably not by Poe.

Note this--

"This nineteenth-century drawing of an unidentified man. . . was once believed to be a self-portrait of Edgar Allan Poe. The likeness, supposedly completed in 1845, carries a forged signature in the upper left corner: 'Edgar A. Poe.' It is one of three drawings, all erroneously attributed to Poe, that were reportedly discovered in Italy sometime before 1930. . . . Accompanying the portrait were two other drawings, said to be sketches by Poe of his childhood sweetheart, Sarah Elmira Royster, and his wife, Virginia Clemm Poe."

From the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore website.

The design for the cover to The Stylus, a literary journal that Poe had hoped to publish but for which he failed to gain financial backing, is by Poe but not the other supposed artworks.

Best regards

Chris