J. D. McClatchy is Poetry Editor of The Yale Review, and his poems, essays, and reviews appear regularly in The New Republic, The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review.

• IntroductionArt and IdeasWilliam Butler YeatsVorticismEzra PoundA Matisse andPainting in the American GrainWilliam Carlos WilliamsRobert Andrew ParkerMarianne MooreFrom Introduction to These PaintingsD. H. LawrencePicturesGertrude SteinThe Relations between Poetry and PaintingWallace StevensCalm Even in the CatastropheW.H.AudenPainters as WritersStephen SpenderForeword to an ExhibitE. E. CummingsGregorio ValdesElizabeth BishopThe Heroic Object and Fernand UgerKenneth RexrothOn Poetry and Painting,with a Thought on MusicHoward NemerovAgainst Abstract ExpressionismRandall JarrellJackson PollockFrank O'HaraA Note on Franz KlineRobert CreeleyAn Art of WonderingRobert DuncanBalthusGuy DavenportRespect for Things as They AreJohn AshberyThe Painting of Jane FreilicherJames SchuylerThe Poet as PainterCharles TomlinsonThe Hanged Man and the DragonflyTed HughesNotes on Corot 3James MerrillFragments of a "Rodin"Richard HowardCrossing the Tracks to Hopper's WorldMark StrandLandscape's EmpireJohn Hollander

J. D. McClatchy is Poetry Editor of The Yale Review, and his poems, essays, and reviews appear regularly in The New Republic, The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review.

• IntroductionArt and IdeasWilliam Butler YeatsVorticismEzra PoundA Matisse andPainting in the American GrainWilliam Carlos WilliamsRobert Andrew ParkerMarianne MooreFrom Introduction to These PaintingsD. H. LawrencePicturesGertrude SteinThe Relations between Poetry and PaintingWallace StevensCalm Even in the CatastropheW.H.AudenPainters as WritersStephen SpenderForeword to an ExhibitE. E. CummingsGregorio ValdesElizabeth BishopThe Heroic Object and Fernand UgerKenneth RexrothOn Poetry and Painting,with a Thought on MusicHoward NemerovAgainst Abstract ExpressionismRandall JarrellJackson PollockFrank O'HaraA Note on Franz KlineRobert CreeleyAn Art of WonderingRobert DuncanBalthusGuy DavenportRespect for Things as They AreJohn AshberyThe Painting of Jane FreilicherJames SchuylerThe Poet as PainterCharles TomlinsonThe Hanged Man and the DragonflyTed HughesNotes on Corot 3James MerrillFragments of a "Rodin"Richard HowardCrossing the Tracks to Hopper's WorldMark StrandLandscape's EmpireJohn Hollander