Must be my favourite quote about the shadowy nature of ekphrasis. “Everywhere in ekphrastic studies…
Nobody wants any more poems about paintings…
“Nobody wants any more poems about philosophers or paintings or novelists or art galleries or mythology or foreign cities or other poems. At least I hope nobody want them.”
Kingsley Amis
Source: Caroline Merz, Patrick Lee-Browne, Post-war Literature: 1945 to the Present : English Literature in Its Historical, Cultural and Social, Evans Brothers, 2003, Pp 19, ISBN: 9780237522582