Gods and mortals : modern poems on classical myths
This anthology gathers the great 20th-century myth-inspired poems from around the world, by the likes of Valery, Yeats, Lawrence, Rilke, Akhmatova, and Auden writing in the first half of the century to contemporary poets such as Lucille Clifton, Derek Walcott, Rita Dove and Wislawa Szymborska
Poetry
1 online resource (xx, 295 pages)
9780198030553, 9781280833427, 9786610833429, 019803055X, 1280833424, 6610833427
229992303
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Cover
COVER
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
TITANS
Atlas
atlas
Atlas on Grass
Prometheus
Prometheus
Prometheus on His Crag (20)
Old Prometheus
Prometheus
Inhabited Liver
New Prometheus
Prometheus
PROMETHEUS AND PANDORA
For Pandora, Again
ZEUS
Zeus & Hera/Zeus in Love
Jupiter on Juno
Jove
Leda
Leda
Leda
Leda and the Swan
Leda
Leda 3
Leda
Living Next to Leda
To 10, Afterwards
10 Remembers
"Pink foam of exhaustion round his soft lips ..."
Europa
"After abducting Europa ..."
Alcmene
Ganymede
The Rape of Ganymede
DEMETER
Demeter's Grief
Demeter
The Search
Demeter's Prayer to Hades
Persephone
The Abduction of Persephone by Hades
Persephone
Persephone
Hymn to Proserpine
Bavarian Gentians
Purple Anemones
Pomegranate
APOLLO
The Nature of Apollo
Apollo of the Physiologists
Linear A
Apollo's Loves
Daphne with Her Thighs in Bark
Where I Live in This Honorable House of the Laurel Tree
Daphne Herself
Daphne
A Footnote to Ovid
Daphne After
Apollo and Daphne
Daphne on Woodbrook Drive
Apollo to Daphne
Waking
Marpessa's Choice
APHRODITE
Birth of Eventually Venus
Episode with Aphrodite
Aphrodite
Praise to Aphrodite
Aphrodite at Solstice
The Re-birth of Venus
Venus over the Desert
The Death of Venus
OTHER OLYMPIANS
Athene
Athene's Song
Athena's Vote
Hermes
Hermes
"In the fourth year of the war ..."
Hermes, Dog, and Star
Ares
Expiation
Mars
Artemis
Cretan Artemis
Diana-or the Objects
Hecate
The Fate of Actaeon
Endymion
Hephaestus
"Zeus fired Hephaestus ..."
Hephaestus
Vulcan
Dionysus
Once and For All
Playing Dionysos in The Bacchae
Go Loudly, Pentheus
Pentheus
LESSER IMMORTALS & NEAR-IMMORTALS
Eros
Eros
Hymn to Eros
Cupid's Chant
Pan
Pan with Us
Pan Is Dead
Satyrs
The Clown's Report on Satyrs
The Satyr
Centaurs
The Centaur
Centaur
The Last Centaur
Epitaph for a Centaur
Chiron
Dryads
Dryad
Virgin in a Tree
Wooded Forms
Proteus
Proteus
Proteus
Proteus's Tale
Proteus
Sibyl
The Sibyl
A Sibyl
The Sibyl
THE WAY TO THE UNDERWORLD
The Styx; Charon
On the Banks of the Styx
Charon's Cosmology
Shore
Canto 26
Charon
Cerberus
Cerberus
Lethe
Lethe
Lethe
There Is No River Which Is Called Lethe
LOVERS
Orpheus & Eurydice
Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes
Eurydice to Orpheus
Eurydice
Eurydice
Descent
Orpheus in Hell
Orpheus and Eurydice
The Look Back
Eurydice
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