Lire c’est voir voir ecrire

Reading is seeing seeing writing

Images and Poetry

by David Kelley

‘A brilliant integration of picture and verse by Britain's foremost Baudelairean scholar.’
Lire c’est voir/Reading is seeing is a marvellous contemporary example of the dialogue between painting and poetry.  The images are wonderfully constructed and the poetry, in both French and English, is a delight.  The two together magically combine to give a special insight into the mind of the artist and the writer.
David Kelley (1941-1999) taught art history at Warwick University and  at Trinity College, Cambridge where he was a Fellow in French Literature.  He has written extensively on French poetry and, in 1994, was made an Officer des Arts et des Lettres for his services to French culture.  
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