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The Poetry of Death
Emma Maggie Solberg
Description: The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe
The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe
How did medieval makaris (makers, poets) put death into words? How did their poetry of death sound to medieval ears? William Wordsworth (1770–1850) famously defined poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings …...
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Emma Maggie Solberg
PublisherBowdoin College Museum of Art
Copyright© 2017 Bowdoin College
Related print edition pages: pp.229-245
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00238.005
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21009
Chapter subject tags:Poetry, MedievalDeath--PoetryDance of death in literature

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