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  2. Musée des Beaux Arts (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Landscape with the Fall of Icarus in what is now the Oldmasters Museum, Brussels.It is now usually regarded as an early copy of a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder "Musée des Beaux Arts" (French for "Museum of Fine Arts") is a 23-line poem written by W. H. Auden in December 1938 while he was staying in Brussels, Belgium, with Christopher Isherwood. [1]

  3. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus - Wikipedia

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    The painting is the subject of W. H. Auden's poem of 1938, "Musée des Beaux-Arts", in which Icarus's fall is perceived by the ploughman as "not an important failure". The painting is shown in Nicolas Roeg's film The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), where a character opens a book of paintings to an image of it. On the facing page a description ...

  4. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, 1558, formerly attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Elder. "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" is an ecphrastic poem by the 20th-century American poet William Carlos Williams that was written in response to Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, traditionally attributed to Pieter Bruegel.

  5. I Am (poem) - Wikipedia

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    I Am" (or "Lines: I Am") [1] is a poem written by English poet John Clare in late 1844 or 1845 and published in 1848. It was composed when Clare was in the Northampton General Lunatic Asylum [ 2 ] (commonly Northampton County Asylum, and later renamed St Andrew's Hospital), isolated by his mental illness from his family and friends.

  6. List of cultural references in the Divine Comedy - Wikipedia

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    Dante, poised between the mountain of purgatory and the city of Florence, a detail of a painting by Domenico di Michelino, Florence 1465.. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is a long allegorical poem in three parts (or canticas): the Inferno (), Purgatorio (), and Paradiso (), and 100 cantos, with the Inferno having 34, Purgatorio having 33, and Paradiso having 33 cantos.

  7. Icarus - Wikipedia

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    Daedalus, Icarus, Queen Pasiphaë, and two of her attendants in a Roman mosaic from Zeugma, Commagene The Fall of Icarus. Antique fresco from Pompeii, 40–79 AD. Icarus's father Daedalus, a very talented Athenian craftsman, built a labyrinth for King Minos of Crete near his palace at Knossos to imprison the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster born of his wife and the Cretan bull.

  8. Talk:Icarus - Wikipedia

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    With Icarus you have the interrelation of Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (poem), and Musée des Beaux Arts (poem). I see the problem as a difference between subject matter and allusion. I mean, there's a difference between a sculpture called Icarus and a one-line

  9. Dominador Ilio - Wikipedia

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    Dominador “Dom” Ibarra Ilio (November 15, 1913 - February 7, 2006) was a poet and professor born in Malinao, Capiz (now part of Aklan). He is considered a pioneer of Philippine literature in English as a recognized poet and author both in the Philippines and in the United States.