Guide to the Classics: the poetry of Rosemary Dobson
- Written by Peter Kirkpatrick, Senior Lecturer in Australian Literature, University of Sydney
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1555. Rosemary Dobson addressed the painting in her poem Painter of AntwerpWikimedia
In our series, Guide to the classics, experts explain key works of literature.
In the first century BCE the Roman poet Horace proposed that, “A poem is like a picture”, meaning...
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