Poems based on Homeric texts

 Poems based on The Odyssey


Poem

Author

Year

The Heroides: Penelope

Ovid

C 19 BCE

Penelope

Dorothy Parker

1928

Penelope’s Song

Louise Gluck

1997

Siren 

Louise Gluck

1997

Odysseus’ Decision 

Louise Gluck

1997

Siren Song

Margaret Atwood

1974

Circe’s Torment

Louise Gluck

1997

Circe’s Grief

Louise Gluck

1997

Circe’s Power

Louise Gluck

1997

Telemachus’ Fantasy

Louise Gluck

1997

Telemachus’ Guilt

Louise Gluck

1997

Telemachus’ Kindness

Louise Gluck

1997

Telemachus’ Detachment

Louise Gluck

1997

Penelope to Ulysses

Meredith Schwartz


The Wife of the Man of Many Wiles

A.E. Stallings

2002

Circe

Carol Ann Duffy

1999

Penelope

Carol Ann Duffy

1999

The Bed that is a Tree

Kim Lasky

2011

An Ancient Gesture

Edna St Vincent Millay

1954

Penelope 

Louise Bogan



Poems based on The Iliad


Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing

Margaret Atwood 


Penelope to Ulysses 

Margaret Atwood 


Achilles' Wrath

Louise Glück


The


Helen

H.D.


The



Helen

Edna St. Vincent Millay 


The Iliad, Book XXIV  

Alice Oswald


Sappho to Phaon: Fragment XI 

Sappho


Helen of Troy 

Sara Teasdale 


Ilium 

Rosmarie Waldrop 


In the Iliad 

Alicia Suskin Ostriker


Achilles' Prayer to His Mother 

Diane Thiel 




Poems based on the Homeric Hymns 


Hymn to Aphrodite 

H.D. 


Demeter

Carol Ann Duffy 


Persephone, Falling 

Rita Dove 


The Hymn of Demeter 

Alicia Ostriker 


Helen 

Anne Carson 


Persephone, Revisited 

Louise Glück 


Demeter's Prayer to Hades  

Rachel Hadas



Persephone, Falling 

Patricia Monaghan


Demeter's Lament for Persephone 

Mary Oliver 



Persephone in Winter

Mary Jo Bang 


? Omphale 

Edna St. Vincent Millay 

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