As I’ve previously mentioned, I’m a fan of poems about paintings, and poems about mythological subjects. This Sunday night’s poem scratches both those itches: W. H. Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts,” about the painting Landscape With the Fall Of Icarus, traditionally attributed to Pieter Breugel the Elder:
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