Homer: Of
the Man of Many Ways who Was Driven Far
DISCONSOLATE ULYSSES
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Calypso's Island, by A. MacLeish
Compare to: Homer, Od.
5,56-62; 81-84
WHERE IS HOME?
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But Home Is Here, by T. Steele
A DIFFERENT TAKE ON ODYSSEUS
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Ulysses, by R. Lowell
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Odysseus, by W. S. Merwin
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You Are Odysseus, by L. Pastan
Compare to: Homer, Od.
13,287-95
PENELOPE'S WEAVING
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Penelope and Me, by R.F. Whisler
PENELOPE -- WRITING(?)
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Penelope Writes, by K. Pollitt
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Blues for Penelope, by W. Logan
Compare to: Homer, Od.
19,134-50; Ovid, Heroid. 1
PENELOPE WEEPING – AND ODYSSEUS WEEPING TOO
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An Ancient Gesture, by E. St.Vincent Millay
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Ulysses Weeps, by P. Mariani
Compare to: Homer, Od.
4,715-20; 8,83-92; Plato, Phileb. 50b
BLAMELESS PENELOPE
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The World As Meditation, by W. Stevens
Compare to: Homer, Od.
11,444-9; 19,546-50
GROWING UP IN A SINGLE PARENT HOUSEHOLD
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Telemachus’ Confession, by L. Glück
Compare to: Homer, Od.
1,360-4
COPING WITH AGING PARENTS
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Telemachos in Middle Age, by R. Cooperman
DEMODOKOS, or HOW IS THE POET TO MAKE A LIVING?
a) GET HIMSELF A RICH PATRON
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Sonnet: Zimmer Imagines Himself Being Poet-in-Residence,
by P. Zimmer
Compare to: Homer Od.
8,474-81; Horace, Odes 1,1; Martial, Epigr. 1,107, 1-6
b) GET ON THE CIRCUIT
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On
the Circuit, by W. H. Auden
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the
poetry reading, by C. Bukowski
Compare to: Cicero, Pro
Archia 3,4; A. P. 7,715; 736
SCANDAL ON OLYMPUS—WHO'S TO BLAME?
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in heavenly realms of hellas, by e. e. cummings
Compare to: Homer, Od.
8,266-70
A SENSE OF ADVENTURE
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Nigger Song: An Odyssey, by R. Dove
Compare to: Homer, Od.
11,1-19
WRESTLING WITH A GOD
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Proteus, or, The Shapes of Conscience, by R. Humphries
Compare to: Homer, Od.
4,384-97
IN THE LAND OF THE DEAD: THE GLOOMY VIEW
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Charon's Cosmology, by C. Simic
Compare to: Homer, Il.
23,103-4; Plato, Rep. 3,387b
GREAT SINNERS: SISYPHUS, IXION
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The Myth of Sisyphus, by S. Mitchel
Compare to: Homer, Od.
11, 593-600; Lucretius, On Nature 3,995-1002; Augustine, Confess.
10,14
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The Mountain, by L. Glück
Ovid, Ars amat. 3,403-4
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Gloss on the Sin of Ixion, by T. Merton
Apollodorus, Epit.
1,20
DEATH BETTER THAN LIFE(?)
Compare to: Plato, Phaedo
66 c-e
THE FIELDS OF ELYSIUM
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Zimmer Imagines Heaven, by P. Zimmer
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The Heaven of Animals, by J. Dickey
Compare to: Homer, Od.
4,561-8; Plato, Apol. 41a-b
THE PARADE OF WOMEN
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I dreamed I moved among the Elysian fields, by
E. St.Vincent Millay
Compare to: Homer, Od.
11,225-330
FIGHTING THE TEMPTATION
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The Sirens, by X. J. Kennedy
Compare to: Homer, Od.
12, 192-200
WHY IS HOMER A CLASSIC (AND WHAT IS A CLASSIC,
ANYWAY)?
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Homer in Basic, by K. Rexroth
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Classics, by P. Goodman
Compare to: Longinus, Sublim.
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