<P> `` Landscape with the Fall of Icarus '' is an ecphrastic poem by the 20th - century American poet William Carlos Williams that was written in response to Landscape with the Fall of Icarus , traditionally attributed to Pieter Bruegel . Williams first published the poem as part of a sequence in The Hudson Review in 1960 , subsequently using the sequence as the basis for his final book , Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems , published in 1962 . </P>
<P> `` Landscape with the Fall of Icarus '' is an ecphrastic poem by the 20th - century American poet William Carlos Williams that was written in response to Landscape with the Fall of Icarus , traditionally attributed to Pieter Bruegel . Williams first published the poem as part of a sequence in The Hudson Review in 1960 , subsequently using the sequence as the basis for his final book , Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems , published in 1962 . </P>
when was landscape with the fall of icarus written
when was landscape with the fall of icarus written
1960
1960