The Sylphs of the Season With Other Poems

Washington Allston (1779 1843) was an American poet and influential painter. He pioneered America's Romantic movement of landscape painting. He experimented with dramatic subject matter, bold colors, and light. Poems in this collection include The Sylphs of the Seasons; a Poet's Dream, The Two Pointers; a Tale, Eccentricity, The Paint King, Myrtilla: addressed to a Lady, who lamented that she had never been in love, To a Lady who spoke slightingly of Poets, Sonnet on a Falling Group in the Last Judgment of Michael Angelo, in the Cappella Sistina, Sonnet on the Group of the Three Angels before the Tent of Abraham, by Raffaelle, in the Vatican, Sonnet, on seeing the Picture of AEolus, by Peligrino Tibaldi, in the Institute at Bologna, Sonnet on Rembrant; occasioned by his Picture of Jacob's Dream, Sonnet on the Luxembourg Gallery, Sonnet to my venerable Friend, the President of the Royal Academy, The Mad Lover at the Grave of his Mistress, First Love: a Ballad, The Complaint, and Will, the Maniac: a Ballad.