"not too late to seek a newer world"" (56–57). Since Dante's Ulisse has already undertaken this voyage and recounts it in the ""Inferno"", Ulysses' entire monologue can be envisioned as his recollection while situated in Hell. The degree to which Tennyson identifies with Ulysses has provided one of the great debates among scholars of the poem. Critics who find that Tennyson identifies with the speaker read Ulysses' speech ""affirmatively"", or without irony. Many other interpretations of the poem have developed from the argument that Tennyson does not identify with Ulysses, and further criticism has suggested that the purported inconsistencies in"
"Odyssey The Odyssey (; ""Odýsseia"", in Classical Attic) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the ""Iliad"", the other work ascribed to Homer. The ""Odyssey"" is fundamental to the modern Western canon; it is the second-oldest extant work of Western literature, while the ""Iliad"" is the oldest. Scholars believe the ""Odyssey"" was composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia. The poem mainly focuses on the Greek hero Odysseus (known as Ulysses in Roman myths), king of Ithaca,"
"Ulysses (novel) Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal ""The Little Review"" from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its entirety in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's 40th birthday. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature and has been called ""a demonstration and summation of the entire movement"". According to Declan Kiberd, ""Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking"". ""Ulysses"" chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of"
"The Sirens and Ulysses The Sirens and Ulysses is a large oil painting on canvas by the English artist William Etty, first exhibited in 1837. It depicts the scene from Homer's ""Odyssey"" in which Ulysses (Odysseus) resists the bewitching song of the Sirens by having his ship's crew tie him up, while they are ordered to block their own ears to prevent themselves from hearing the song. While traditionally the Sirens had been depicted as human–animal chimeras, Etty portrayed them as naked young women, on an island strewn with decaying corpses. The painting divided opinion at the time of its"
"James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for ""Ulysses"" (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's ""Odyssey"" are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, most famously stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection ""Dubliners"" (1914), and the novels ""A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"" (1916) and ""Finnegans Wake"" (1939)."
"Ulysses (1954 film) Ulysses () is a 1954 Italian fantasy-adventure film based on Homer's epic poem ""Odyssey"". The movie was directed by Mario Camerini, who co-wrote the screenplay with writer Franco Brusati. The original choice for director was Georg Wilhelm Pabst but he quit at the last minute. The film's cinematographer Mario Bava co-directed the Polyphemus Cyclops segment (uncredited). In the film Silvana Mangano plays two roles, as Penelope, the faithful wife of Ulysses and the sorceress, Circe. American star Kirk Douglas plays the Greek hero, Ulysses. Anthony Quinn plays Antinous. The tremendous success of this film led to the"
"Jon Elster used the name of Draper's painting as the title for his 1979 book about rationality and precommitment. Ulysses and the Sirens Ulysses and the Sirens is a 1909 oil painting by Herbert James Draper measuring 69.25 x 84 in. It is held at the Ferens Art Gallery in Kingston upon Hull, England. The gallery purchased the painting from Draper in 1910 for £600. Draper also painted a reduced replica that is housed at the Leeds Art Gallery. The subject of the painting is an episode in the epic poem ""Odyssey"" by Homer in which Ulysses is tormented by"
"an aged Ulysses who is determined to continue to live life to the fullest. ""The Odyssey"" (1997), a made-for-TV movie directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, is a slightly abbreviated version of the epic. Other authors have composed more creative reworkings of the poem, often updated to address contemporary themes and concerns. ""Cyclops"" by Euripides, the only fully extant satyr play, retells the episode involving Polyphemus with a humorous twist. ""A True Story"", written by Lucian of Samosata in the 2nd century AD, is a satire on the ""Odyssey"" and on ancient travel tales, describing a journey sailing westward, beyond the Pillars"
"by his statements about the poem, and by the events in his life—the death of his closest friend—that prompted him to write it. In the twentieth century, some new interpretations of ""Ulysses"" highlighted potential ironies in the poem. They argued, for example, that Ulysses wishes to selfishly abandon his kingdom and family, and they questioned more positive assessments of Ulysses' character by demonstrating how he resembles flawed protagonists in earlier literature. As the poem begins, Ulysses has returned to his kingdom, Ithaca, having made a long journey home after fighting in the Trojan War. Confronted again by domestic life, Ulysses"
"Odysseus Odysseus (; , "" Ὀdysseús"" ), also known by the Latin variant Ulysses (, ; ), is a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the ""Odyssey"". Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's ""Iliad"" and other works in that same epic cycle. Son of Laërtes and Anticlea, husband of Penelope and father of Telemachus and Acusilaus. Odysseus is renowned for his intellectual brilliance, guile, and versatility (""polytropos""), and is thus known by the epithet Odysseus the Cunning (Greek: μῆτις or ""mētis"", ""cunning intelligence""). He is most famous for his ""nostos"" or “homecoming”,"
"Lizzie Twigg Lizzie Twigg (born c. 1882 – 1933) was an Irish poet and Gaelic revivalist who was famously known for her appearance in Ulysses by James Joyce. Despite being known as a character in ""Ulysses"", Lizzie Twigg was a real person. Born Eliza Ann Twigg in Bengal, India to British soldier, Sergeant Major William Twigg and his wife Frances. He retired to live in Limerick where he worked as a clerk when she was a small child. Twigg was educated in the local Presentation Convent school on Sexton street. She worked in London and Dublin as well as living"
"to finish her tapestry, but she unweaves it every night to stall. Telemachus, the son of Ulysses and Penelope, is sick of the suitors' behavior and decides to search for his father. Ulysses has stranded in the land of Alcinous and is found by Nausicaa. Ulysses (1954 film) Ulysses () is a 1954 Italian fantasy-adventure film based on Homer's epic poem ""Odyssey"". The movie was directed by Mario Camerini, who co-wrote the screenplay with writer Franco Brusati. The original choice for director was Georg Wilhelm Pabst but he quit at the last minute. The film's cinematographer Mario Bava co-directed the"
"Ulysses determined to oust Satan"" who ""presides ... over hordes of demonic Amerindians, creatures devoted to dismembering bodies"". With the arrival of the Jesuits, ""the Cross expels demons"" and ""shamans lose preternatural power as they move from the wilderness into the civilized missions"". That work of history was one of his two major poems. The other was ""De Beata Virgine Dei Matre"", a poem to the Virgin Mary. Tradition holds that Anchieta composed it while in captivity at Iperoig in 1563 by writing verses in the wet sand of the beach and memorizing each day's lines so that upon his"
"The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel is an epic poem by Greek poet and philosopher Nikos Kazantzakis, based on Homer's ""Odyssey"". It is divided into twenty-four rhapsodies as is the original ""Odyssey"" and consists of 33,333 17-syllable verses. Kazantzakis began working on it in 1924 after he returned to Crete from Germany. Before finally publishing the poem in 1938 he had drafted seven different versions. Kazantzakis considered this his most important work. It was fully translated into English in 1958 by Kimon Friar. Odysseus (Ulysses) returns to Ithaca and decides to undertake new adventures after he"
"""The Sirens and Ulysses"" currently hangs in Gallery Three. The Sirens and Ulysses The Sirens and Ulysses is a large oil painting on canvas by the English artist William Etty, first exhibited in 1837. It depicts the scene from Homer's ""Odyssey"" in which Ulysses (Odysseus) resists the bewitching song of the Sirens by having his ship's crew tie him up, while they are ordered to block their own ears to prevent themselves from hearing the song. While traditionally the Sirens had been depicted as human–animal chimeras, Etty portrayed them as naked young women, on an island strewn with decaying corpses."
"Ulysses (broadcast) The ""Ulysses"" broadcast occurred on Bloomsday 1982 when the Irish state broadcaster, RTÉ Radio, transmitted an uninterrupted 30-hour dramatised performance, by 33 actors of the RTÉ Players, of the entire text of James Joyce's epic novel, ""Ulysses"", to commemorate the centenary of the author's birth (born 2 February 1882). The broadcast was carried by live relay internationally and won a Jacob's Broadcasting Award in recognition of its achievement. The novel ""Ulysses"" contains about 265,000 words from a vocabulary of 30,030 words. This record-breaking and historic literary broadcast was originally released on 20 audio cassettes in 1982 and later"
"Ulysses and the Sirens Ulysses and the Sirens is a 1909 oil painting by Herbert James Draper measuring 69.25 x 84 in. It is held at the Ferens Art Gallery in Kingston upon Hull, England. The gallery purchased the painting from Draper in 1910 for £600. Draper also painted a reduced replica that is housed at the Leeds Art Gallery. The subject of the painting is an episode in the epic poem ""Odyssey"" by Homer in which Ulysses is tormented by the voices of Sirens, although there are only two Sirens in Homer's poem and they stay in a meadow."
"poems. The poem imitates ""The Lusiads"" by Luís Vaz de Camões. It is about the founding of the town of Lisbon by Ulysses (Odysseus). The book was published posthumously by poet's brother Luís Pereira de Castro in 1636. He wrote poems in Latin and Spanish, too. ""Ulisseia"" is considered to be one of the most significant Portuguese epic after Camões. Gabriel Pereira de Castro Gabriel Pereira de Castro (1571-1632) was a Portuguese priest, lawyer and poet. Gabriel Pereira de Castro was born in Braga on 7 February 1571. He became a priest there. Then he studied law at the University"
"Ulysses Awakes Ulysses Awakes ""(after Monteverdi)"" is a musical composition for solo viola and strings by English composer John Woolrich. It is a creative transcription of Ulysses' first aria in act 1, scene 7 of Claudio Monteverdi's opera ""Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria"". Ulysses has been washed up on the coast of Ithaca, his homeland. 'It's a powerfully effective piece, which manages to be utterly faithful to the spirit of Monteverdi and yet entirely part of Woolrich's musical world, too.' ""Ulysses Awakes"" was commissioned by Dartington International Summer School and first performed there by Clare Finnimore and the Guildhall String"
"Air"" was modelled on Leopold Bloom. Leopold Bloom also serves as an archetype, due to his non-identity and political indifference, for the nihilistic and apathetic mass in contemporary society in the French radical fringe publication ""Tiqqun"". Grace Slick's song ""Rejoyce"", from the album ""After Bathing at Baxter's"" concerns the novel ""Ulysses"", and Bloom is mentioned in the song. Leopold Bloom Leopold Bloom is the fictional protagonist and hero of James Joyce's ""Ulysses"". His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and intimate scale, those of Ulysses/Odysseus in Homer's epic poem the ""Odyssey"". The"
"poem ""Ulysses"" (1842), may by implication be referring to Fénelon's conception of Telemachus's somewhat stodgy civilizing mission, by now (from the point of view of Romantic aesthetics, which valued poetic lyricism over moralistic prose) somewhat antiquated, however meritorious: <poem> This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the scepter and the isle Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfill This labor, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and through soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good. Most blameless is he, centered in the sphere Of common duties, decent not to fail In"
"the literary technique known as ""stream of consciousness"", best exemplified in his famous work ""Ulysses"". Joyce also wrote ""Finnegans Wake"", ""Dubliners"", and the semi-autobiographical ""A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"". ""Ulysses"", often considered to be the greatest novel of the 20th century, is the story of a day in the life of a city, Dublin. ""Finnegans Wake"" is written in an invented language which parodies English, Irish and Latin. Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969, was born in Dublin but later moved to France. He wrote thereafter in French and English."
"following Latin editions and English translations of the ""Ibis"" are available online. Ibis (Ovid) Ibis is a curse poem by the Roman poet Ovid, written during his years in exile across the Black Sea for an offense against Augustus. It is ""a stream of violent but extremely learned abuse,"" modeled on a lost poem of the same title by the Greek Alexandrian poet Callimachus. The object of the poet's curses is left unnamed except for the pseudonym ""Ibis"", and no scholarly consensus has been reached as to whom this pseudonym might refer to. Hyginus, Cassius Severus, Titus Labienus, Thrasyllus of"
"Os Lusíadas Os Lusíadas (), usually translated as The Lusiads, is a Portuguese epic poem written by Luís Vaz de Camões ( – 1580) and first published in 1572. It is widely regarded as the most important work of Portuguese literature and is frequently compared to Virgil's ""Aeneid"" (1st c. BC). The work celebrates the discovery of a sea route to India by the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama (1469–1524). The ten cantos of the poem are in ottava rima and total 1,102 stanzas. Written in Homeric fashion, the poem focuses mainly on a fantastical interpretation of the Portuguese voyages"
"Paterson (poem) Paterson is an epic poem by American poet William Carlos Williams published, in five volumes, from 1946 to 1958. The origin of the poem was an eighty-five line long poem written in 1926, after Williams had read and been influenced by James Joyce's novel ""Ulysses"". As he continued writing lyric poetry, Williams spent increasing amounts of time on ""Paterson,"" honing his approach to it both in terms of style and structure. While ""The Cantos"" of Ezra Pound and ""The Bridge"" by Hart Crane could be considered partial models, Williams was intent on a documentary method that differed from"
"Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus is an 1829 oil painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner. It depicts a scene from Homer's ""Odyssey"", showing Odysseus (Ulysses) standing on his ship deriding Polyphemus, one of the cyclopes he encounters and has recently blinded, who is disguised behind one of the mountains on the left side. Additional details include the Trojan Horse, a scene from Virgil's ""Aeneid"", on one of the flags and the horses of Apollo rising above the horizon. The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1829. Acquired by the National Gallery in 1856, the painting"
"Uriel (poem) ""Uriel"" is a poem by American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson. The poem, describing the ""lapse"" of Uriel, is regarded as a ""poetic summary of many strains of thought in Emerson's early philosophy"". ""Once, among the Pleiads walking, Sayd overheard the young gods talking; And the treason, too long pent, To his ears was evident. The young deities discussed Laws of form, and metre just, Orb, quintessence, and sunbeams."" The leader of the speculating young is Uriel, who with ""low tones"" and ""piercing eye"" preaches against the presence of lines in nature, thus introducing the idea of progress and"
"""Ulysses"".) Each line's end-sound—except for the second-last line's ""regret""—is an open vowel or a consonant or consonant group that can be drawn out in reading. Each line ""trails away, suggesting a passage into some infinite beyond: just as each image is clear and precise, yet is only any instance"" of something more universal. The poem, one of the ""songs"" of ""The Princess"", has been set to music a number of times. Edward Lear put the lyric to music in the 19th century, and Ralph Vaughan Williams' pianistic setting of 1903 was described by ""The Times"" as ""one of the most"
"Satires 2.5 (Horace) Published around 30 BCE, the second book of Satires is a series of poems composed in dactylic hexameter by the Roman poet Horace. Satires 2.5 stands out in the work for its unique analysis of legacy hunting. Horace's ""Satire Book II, Satire V"" is poem about a discussion between Ulysses and Tiresias that is presented as a continuation of their interaction in the underworld in Book 11 of Homer's ""Odyssey"". Ulysses is concerned that he will have no wealth once he returns to Ithaca because the suitors will have squandered the contents of his storehouses. Stating bluntly"
"Satires 2.5 (Horace) Published around 30 BCE, the second book of Satires is a series of poems composed in dactylic hexameter by the Roman poet Horace. Satires 2.5 stands out in the work for its unique analysis of legacy hunting. Horace's ""Satire Book II, Satire V"" is poem about a discussion between Ulysses and Tiresias that is presented as a continuation of their interaction in the underworld in Book 11 of Homer's ""Odyssey"". Ulysses is concerned that he will have no wealth once he returns to Ithaca because the suitors will have squandered the contents of his storehouses. Stating bluntly"
"UYC also offers a sailing school program that is open to members of the general public. Just south of Pooley Bridge on the lake's eastern shore is ""Eusemere"", where anti-slavery campaigner Thomas Clarkson (1760–1846) lived; the house gives one of the best views of the lower reach of Ullswater. William and Dorothy Wordsworth were friends of Clarkson and visited on many occasions. After visiting Clarkson in April 1802, Wordsworth was inspired to write his famous poem ""Daffodils"" after seeing daffodils growing on the shores of Ullswater on his journey back to Grasmere. Wordsworth once wrote of ""Ullswater, as being, perhaps,"
"spare, grave, free from excessive decoration, and full of firmly controlled feeling."" In the fifteenth edition of ""Bartlett's Familiar Quotations"" (1980), nine sections of ""Ulysses"", comprising 36 of the poem's 70 lines, are quoted, compared to only six in the ninth edition (1891). Many readers have accepted the acclaimed last lines of ""Ulysses"" as inspirational. The poem's ending line has also been used as a motto by schools and other organisations. The final line is inscribed on a cross at Observation Hill, Antarctica, to commemorate explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his party, who died on their return trek from the"
"to the forbidding colossus of Percy Bysshe Shelley's ""Ozymandias"". The poem is read aloud in the eponymous episode,""New Colossus"", in the 2016 Netflix web series ""The OA"". The poem was also recited in part in """" and referenced by the title of . The New Colossus ""The New Colossus"" is a sonnet that American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) wrote in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal's lower level. This poem was written as a donation to"