‘Saltimbanque en Vriendin’ Opnuut Gelees
N.P. van Wyk Louw’s poem, “Saltimbanque en vriendin” (Tristia, 1962), has to be read against the background of the saltinnbanque tradition in literature and painting. Poems of Baudelaire, IVIarsman and Rilke illustrate the mechanism of this tradition: a metaphysical world implied behind the physical...
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1986-05-01
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| Series: | Literator |
| Online Access: | https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/882 |