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Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures by Leonard Barkan (Hardcover, 2012)

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ISBN-13: 9780691141831, 978-0691141831. What happens when Virgil, Ovid, or Shakespeare suspend their plots to describe a fictitious painting?. From Plutarch ("painting is mute poetry, poetry a speaking picture") to Horace ("as a picture, so a poem"), apparent clarity quickly leads to confusion about, for example, what qualities of pictures are being urged upon poets or how pictorial properties can be converted into poetical ones.