ABSTRACT
A new reading of the Horatian formula becomes possible: ut pictura poesis means that poetry is like painting in that it includes painting as part of its panoply of expressive effects. Apart from being constantly reaffirmed within the works of literature, the links with painting are also recurrent within critical discourse, much as Valerie Shaw does in the study before. A great number of writers have expressed a nostalgia for their "sister art", often overtly declaring their wish to rival the painting, while at the same time reaffirming, where it was considered necessary, literature's superiority. This chapter presents some of the possibilities offered by the image-in-text, while distinguishing between references to art history and elements pertaining to pictorial practice. It is necessary to discuss certain elements that are essential for the elaboration of an intermedial criticism, or a kind of picturo-criticism.
