On a Cenotaph quotes a phrase from Baudelaire
's poem Lesbos: the shocking juxtaposition of a dead body with adoration in le cadavre adoré di Sapho
. Though SP
supplied notes to some things...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Sally Purcell
The short poems of this collection are, as usual with SP
, highly allusive. Dr Dee
II and Dr Dee III again deal with sixteenth-century magic. Other pieces respond to writing by other poets: to...
