For centuries visual artists have looked to poetry for creative inspiration, while poets have been drawn to certain artworks, which surface vividly in their writing.
These interchanges between art forms are for the most-part well documented and widely known. The most famous examples are perhaps the Pre-Raphaelite painters, whose works are often closely linked with literary counterparts (John William Waterhouse’s painting The Lady of Shalott (1888) which references Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem of the same name, for example).
