Ulysses (poem)
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"Ulysses" is a poem in blank verse by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, written in 1833 when Tennyson was 24 and published in 1842 in his well-received second volume of poetry. An oft-quoted p
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, author of "Ulysses", portrayed by George Frederic Watts
The death of Arthur Henry Hallam, a young poet and close friend of Tennyson, was devastating for him.
A Roman mosaic depicting a maritime scene with Odysseus (Ulysses), from Carthage, 2nd century AD
In one of William Blake's watercolors (1824–1827) illustrating Dante's Inferno, Ulysses and Diomedes are condemned to the Eighth Circle.
Blank verse
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Blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, usually in iambic pentameter. It has been described as "probably the most common and influential form that English poetry has ta
Ulysses (poem)
…Ulysses" is a poem in blank verse by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, written in 1833 when Tennyson was 24 and published in 1842 in his well-received second volume of poetry…
The title page of Robert Andrews' translation of Virgil into English blank verse, printed by John Baskerville in 1766