The Face of Poetry

Name/Title

The Face of Poetry

Entry/Object ID

2018.258.043

Description

Traveling exhibit "The Face of Poetry" of Rollie McKenna's author portraits. It originally was displayed in the Firestone Library at Princeton University in November of 1962, but was available to schools and museums to display in two week intervals. Due to the size and weight of the exhibit, it is split into three boxes. Each portrait has accompanying biographical information. Box 1 Title Print John Betjeman Allen Tate John Malcolm Brinnin Dylan Thomas Muriel Rukeyser Vernon Watkins Stephen Spender Robert Lowell Marianne Moore John Ciardi Archibald MacLeish William Plomer Wallace Stevens John Lehmann Robert Fitzgerald Robert Graves Robert Frost Cecil Day Lewis Howard Nemerov Randall Jarrell Box 2 Anthony Hecht Thom Gunn Dannie Abse Barbara Howes Edith Sitwell William Jay Smith Howard Moss Karl Shapiro Donald Hall James Merrill Philip Booth W.H. Auden Daniel Hoffman W.S. Merwin Anne Sexton Alastair Reid Kingsley Ames Elizabeth Bishop W.S. Graham George Barker Box 3 Stanley Kunitz T.S. Eliot Theodore Roethke Louis Macneice William Carlos Williams Conrad Aiken Richard Wilbur Robert Penn Warren Richard Eberhart Philip Larkin D.J. Enright Joseph Langland

Collection

Rollie McKenna

Made/Created

Artist

McKenna, Rollie

Date made

Nov 1962