Hesiod: Of
the Beginnings, of Poets and the Muses
DIVINE INSPIRATION
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Once and for All, by D. Schwartz
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Japanese Beetles, by X. J. Kennedy
Compare to: Hesiod, Theog.24-34
THE PROPER SUBJECT—AND LANGUAGE—FOR POETRY
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Among The Gods, by S. Kunitz
Compare to: Hesiod, Theog.1-17;
Works
1-3
THE POET AS HEALER...
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What Zimmer Would Be, by P. Zimmer
Compare to: Hesiod,
Theog. 53-5; 96-103;
Gorgias, Helen
14; Horace, Epist. 2,1,129-30; Euripides, Medea 190-200
... AND ENTERTAINER TOO
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Constantly risking absurdity, by
L. Ferlinghetti
Compare to: Homer,
Od.4,15-9;
Horace, Epist. 2, 1, 208-13
THE
POET IN THE WORLD: SUCCESS, ENVY, VANITY
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The Fashionable Successful Writers, by A. Montesi
Compare to: Hesiod, Works
25-6; Aeschylus, Agamemnon 832; Horace, Epist. 2,2,95-103
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Reliques of the Poets, by F. C. Rosenberger
Compare to: Ovid, Amor.
1,15,39-42
THE MUSES: HOW MANY EXACTLY?
Compare to: Hesiod, Theog.
53-67; Ovid, Amores 1,15,1-9
IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS CHAOS
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Descent, by W. C. William
Compare to: Hesiod, Theog.
116-118
MOTHER GAEA THE BOUNTIFUL...
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sweet spontaneous,
by e. e. cummings
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The New Cosmology, by F. Seidel
Compare to: Homeric Hymn
to Earth 1-17
... AND THE PASSING OF AN AGRICULTURAL RELIGION
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Europa, by D. Walcott
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Mashkin Hill, by L. Simpson
ZEUS HAS THE POWER AND THE FORCE (FOR EVER?)
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Zeus Over Redeye, by R. Hayden
Compare to: Hesiod, Theog.
383-401
AGES OF MAN: GOLD, SILVER, BRONZE, IRON
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Two Don Quixote Lyrics, by W. H. Auden
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Four Ages, by H. Nemerov
Compare to: Hesiod, Works
110-14
THE AGE OF IRON (SEEMS TO BE) THE LAST INDEED
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Summer Holiday, by R. Jeffers
Compare to: Hesiod, Works
174-81
PROMETHEUS
PSYCHOANALYZED
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Prometheus 1990, by P. Meinke
Compare to: Hesiod, Works
47-53
THE ORIGINS OF HUMAN SUFFERING
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The Casket of Pandora, by M. Zaturenska
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Pandora's Dream, by D. Wagoner
Compare to: Hesiod, Works
91-96
GORGON MEDUSA: NOT IMMORTAL
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Head of Medusa, by M. Zaturenska
Compare to: Hesiod, Theog.
270-277
A SECOND LOOK AT MEDUSA
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Medusa and the Mot Juste, by O. Nash
THE ETERNAL FEMININE...
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The Return of Aphrodite, by M. Sarton
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The Venus of Botticelli, by W. Berry
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The Death of Venus, by R. Creeley
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Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves, by R. Hayden
Compare to: Homeric Hymn
to Aphrodite 1-6
...AND THE ORIGINS OF LIFE
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Eros out of the Sea, by D. B. Laing
Compare to: Hesiod, Theog.
201-6
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