What a wonderful thread! Thanks for starting it, Alicia, and welcome back!
I have a question about ekphrasis: I may be wrong about this, as about so much else, but doesn't the word refer to art in any genre--painting, poetry, music, whatever--based on a response to art in some other form? For instance, is Moussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" an ekphrastic work? Or Degas' paintings and sculptures of ballet dancers?Or does the term refer only to poetry so inspired?
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