From barbara@kuhn-chen.de Wed Oct 31 08:28:02 2001 Received: from mailscan4.cac.washington.edu (mailscan4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with SMTP id f9VGS0n162076 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:28:00 -0800 Received: FROM mxu1.u.washington.edu BY mailscan4.cac.washington.edu ; Wed Oct 31 08:27:59 2001 -0800 Received: from mout02.kundenserver.de (mout02.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.133]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with ESMTP id f9VGRwB15928 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:27:59 -0800 Received: from [195.20.224.208] (helo=mrvdom01.schlund.de) by mout02.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 15yyDd-0002ZB-00 for classics@u.washington.edu; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:27:57 +0100 Received: from p3e9bb2b4.dip.t-dialin.net ([62.155.178.180] helo=littleru) by mrvdom01.schlund.de with smtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 15yyDc-0007YO-00 for classics@u.washington.edu; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:27:56 +0100 From: "Barbara Kuhn-Chen" To: Subject: RE: Poetry Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:24:46 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 In-Reply-To: <1eebc5d1ef2845.1ef28451eebc5d@homemail.nyu.edu> The following list of Homer-related contemporary English poems is part of the material which I have dug up for an article (alas! yet to be written) for Der Neue Pauly. Barbara Kuhn-Chen Institut fur Klassische Philologie Justus-Liebig-Universitaet Giessen James K. Baxter, Odysseus Back to Ithaca (from: J. E. Weir (ed.). James K. Baxter. Collected Poems. Wellington/Oxford/New York 1981) Miles Burrows, Economics Odysseus Troy (from: F.E.S. Finn. Poems of the Sixties. London 1970) H.D, Helen (from: Fleur Adcock (ed.). The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry. London/Boston 1987) Lawrence Durrell, On Ithaca Standing (from: Penguin Modern Poets I, Lawrence Durrell/Elizabeth Jennings/R.S. Thomas, Harmondsworth 1962) Lawrence Durrell, Penelope Troy (from: James A. Brighton (ed.). Lawrence Durrell. Collected Poems 1931--1974. London/Boston 1980) Louise Gluck The Triumph of Achilles (from: Louise Gluck, The Triumph of Achilles, New York 1985) Wilson Harris, Troy Tiresias (the seer) Heracles (the slave) Achilles (the great runner) Anticleia (the mother) The Stone of the Sea (Odysseus to Calypso) (from: Wilson Harris, Eternity to Season, London/Port of Spain 1978) Daryl Hine, Patroclus Putting on the Armour of Achiles (from Douglas Daymond/Leslie Monhuran (ed.). Literature in Cacada 2. Toronto/Vancouver/Calgary/Montreal 1978) A.D. Hope, The Tomb of Penthesilea (from: A.d. Hope. Collected Poems 1930--1970. Sydney 1972) Robert Lowell, Helen Achilles to the dying Lykaon Cassandra 1 Cassandra 2 Orestes' Dream Clytemnestra 1 Clytemnestra 2 Clytemnestra 3 (from: Robert Lowell, History, New York 1973) Robert Lowell, Penelope Ulysses and Nausikaa (from: Robert Lowell. Notebook. New York 3rd edition 1970) Robert Lowell, Ulysses and Circe (from: Robert Lowell. Day by Day. New York 1977) Archibald MacLeish, Calypso's Island (from: Archibald MacLeish. Collected Poems 1917--1952. Cambridge, Mass. 1952) W.S. Merwin, Odysseus (from: W.S. Merwin. The First Four Books of Poems. New York 1975) Edwin Muir, The Return of the Greeks (from: M.L. Rosenthal (ed.), Potry in English. An Anthology. New York/Oxford 1987) Edwin Muir, The Charm Telemachos Remembers The Heroes Penelope in Doubt (from: Peter Butter (ed.). The Complete poems of Edwin Muir. Aberdeen 1991) Vincent O'Sullivan, Dream of Ulysses Argos (Birthplace of Helen) Imagine Yourself a Troy (from: Vincent O'Sullivan. Our Burning Time. Wellington 1985) Linda Pastan, Penelope You are Odysseus (from: William Heyen (ed.). American Poets in 1976. Indianapolis 1976) Linda Pastan, Homecoming Rereading the Odyssey in Middle Age (from: Linda Pastan. "Penelope -- The Sequel: Some Uses of Mythology in Contemporary Poetry" in: Robert Pack/Jay Parin (ed.). The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Essays. Hanover/London 1989) Adrienne Rich, Euryclea's Tale (from: Adrienne Rich. Poems: Selected and New 1950--1974. New York 1975) C.H. Sisson, Est in Conspectu Tenedos (from: Michael Schmidt (ed.). Eleven British Poets. London 1980) Kendrick Smithyman, How to Dispose of Ajax (from: Charles Doyle (ed.). Recent Poetry in New Zealand. Auckland 1965) Andrew Young, Penelope (from: Leonard Clark (ed.). Andrew Young. Complete Poems. London 1974) -----Original Message----- From: CLASSICS-owner@u.washington.edu [mailto:CLASSICS-owner@u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of Diana Wright Sent: Dienstag, 30. Oktober 2001 23:45 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Poetry I have put up my web page again with many changes and, I hope, some improvements. In the Homer link I have linked to about 25 Homer-related poems, mostly contemporary. I have more to go, and would appreciate texts & suggestions for inclusion. DW http://homepage.newschool.edu/~wrightd .