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'In the first century BCE the Roman poet Horace proposed that, “A poem is like a picture”, meaning that, like painting, poetry engages in mimesis by imitating life, copying it in a fixed medium. But what happens when art imitates art, as in Australian poet Rosemary Dobson’s poem, For the Painter Ben Nicholson, about the work of the British modernist?' (Introduction)
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Guide to the Classics : The Poetry of Rosemary Dobson
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- For the Painter Ben Nicholson 1978 single work poetry
- In a Convex Mirror 1942 single work poetry
- Painter of Antwerp 1945 single work poetry
- Landscape in Italy 1950 single work poetry
- Dry River 1963 single work poetry
- The Continuance of Poetry : Twelve Poems for David Campbell 1980 sequence poetry
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