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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 13 September 2018 of The Conversation est. 2011 The Conversation
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Guide to the Classics : The Poetry of Rosemary Dobson, Peter Kirkpatrick , single work column

'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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