Poems about paintings, or ’painting poems’, are a great tradition. WH Auden’s ‘Musee de Beaux Arts’, about Bruegel’s masterpiece ‘The Fall of Icarus’ (ominously first published in the spring of 1939), is one of the most well known. And the Welsh poet and Anglican priest RS Thomas mastered this form of poetry in works such […]
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