No poem today. Here's a piece about Venice, in history and literature.
The Courtauldian · The Poets of Venice - 'Around me are the Stars and Waters'This article was previously published in the special edition, VENICE (July 2019).To call Venice a city of ghosts is painfully cliché. But what isn’t cliché about the famous floating city – La Serenissima, the ‘most serene’ city? As literature’s love affair with Venice continues doggedly into its sixth century, poets and writers persistently attempt to revive the lost romanticism of the crumbling coloured façades, the slow gondolas traversing the Grand Canal and the view across the lagoon to the
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