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“On Pieter Brueghel's Icarus” by John Hagney
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English - June 02, 2020 15:00 - 1 minute - 103 Bytes - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsBooks Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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All of this week's readings are examples of ekphrastic verse, in which the poem is inspired by another work of art. Today's poem responds to the painting "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" by Pieter Brueghel (Click for more info on this week's reader)