Editing Odysseus (section)

==== Poetry ====

In her poem {{ws|[[s:Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837/Site of the Castle of Ulysses|Site of the Castle of Ulysses]]}} (published in 1836), [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]] gives her version of ''The Song of the Sirens'' with an explanation of its purpose, structure and meaning. This illustrates a painting by [[Charles Bentley (painter)|Charles Bentley]] engraved by R. Sands, and showing The Black Mountains of [[Cephalonia]] in the background.<ref>{{cite book|last=Landon|first=Letitia Elizabeth|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=39BbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA42|section=poetical illustration|pages=18-19|year=1836|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.|access-date=5 December 2022|archive-date=5 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205220157/https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=39BbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA42|url-status=live}}{{cite book|last=Landon|first=Letitia Elizabeth|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=39BbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA44section=picture|year=1836|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.|access-date=5 December 2022|archive-date=5 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205220158/https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=39BbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA44section=picture|url-status=live}}</ref> A further poetical illustration, also in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837, is to an engraving of a painting by [[Charles Bentley (painter)|Charles Bentley]], {{ws|[[s:Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837/Town and Harbour of Ithaca|Town and Harbour of Ithaca]]}} and harks back to the island 'where Ulysses was king'.<ref>{{cite book|last=Landon|first=Letitia Elizabeth|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=39BbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA160|section=picture|year=1836|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.|access-date=9 December 2022|archive-date=9 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209202628/https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=39BbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA160|url-status=live}}{{cite book|last=Landon|first=Letitia Elizabeth|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=39BbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA162|section=poetical illustration|pages=47-48|year=1836|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.|access-date=9 December 2022|archive-date=9 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209202627/https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=39BbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA162|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]]'s poem "[[Ulysses (poem)|Ulysses]]" (published in 1842) presents an aging king who has seen too much of the world to be happy sitting on a throne idling his days away. Leaving the task of civilizing his people to his son, he gathers together a band of old comrades "to sail beyond the sunset".

[[Nikos Kazantzakis]]'s ''[[The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel]]'' (1938), a 33,333-line epic poem, begins with Odysseus cleansing his body of the blood of [[Penelope]]'s suitors. Odysseus soon leaves Ithaca in search of new adventures. Before his death he abducts Helen, incites revolutions in [[Crete]] and [[Egypt]], communes with God, and meets representatives of such famous historical and literary figures as [[Vladimir Lenin]], [[Alonso Quijano|Don Quixote]] and Jesus.

In 1986, Irish poet [[Eilean Ni Chuilleanain]] published "The Second Voyage", a poem in which she makes use of the story of Odysseus.