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" '. . .Those fantatic forms, fang-sharp,
bone-bare, that in Byzantine painting
were a shorthand for the Unbounded
beyond the Pale, unpoliced spaces
where dragons dwelt and demons roamed,
colonized only by ex-worldlings,
pentinent sophists and sodomites,
are visual facts in the foreground now,
real structures of steel and glass.'"
AUTHOR
W. H. Auden
KEYWORDS
city, building, glass, unbounded
GENRE
20th Century Poetry
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