Michael Field’s “A Dance of Death”
The 1912 poem "A Dance of Death" by Michael Field (pen name of Katherine Bradley and her niece Edith Cooper) depicts Salome in an alternate version of the biblical story: this Salome dances on a frozen river, falls through the ice, and is decapitated on a jagged edge. Nonetheless, her beau...
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Septentrio Academic Publishing
2012-03-01
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| Series: | Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur |
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| Online Access: | https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/2050 |