{"id":1814080,"date":"2023-04-20T19:10:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T23:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1814080"},"modified":"2023-04-21T08:33:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T12:33:27","slug":"poems-on-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/04\/poems-on-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems on Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leventhalmap.org\/articles\/maps-poetry\/\">The Leventhal Map Center looks at poems on maps<\/a>. Not <em>about<\/em> maps, <em>on<\/em> maps. \u201cIt just so happens that many of the maps in our collection have poems inscribed on them, in legends, around borders, and hidden away in overlooked corners. We find them primarily on pictorial maps, and the poems are mainly by men from the 20th century literary canon, but the maps they are on cover a wide geographic range.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Leventhal Map Center looks at poems on maps. Not about maps, on maps. \u201cIt just so happens that many of the maps in our collection have poems inscribed on them, in legends, around borders,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/04\/poems-on-maps\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,4],"tags":[886,460,217],"class_list":["post-1814080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-art","category-maps-and-literature","tag-leventhal","tag-pictorial-maps","tag-poetry","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787272,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/05\/an-anciente-mappe-of-fairyland\/","url_meta":{"origin":1814080,"position":0},"title":"An Anciente Mappe of Fairyland","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"7 May 2019","format":"image","excerpt":"\"An Anciente Mappe of Fairyland,\" produced by Bernard Sleigh around 1917, is a marvellous conflation of classical myth and fairy tales. 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