Odyssey1-12

But whom does this bring peace? The classic war
between a passion and responsibility
is never finished, and has been the same

to the sea-wanderer and the one on shore,
now wriggling on his sandals to walk home,
since Troy sighed its last flame,

and the blind giant's boulder heaved the trough
from which the Odyssey's hexameters come
to finish up as Caribbean surf.

The classics can console. But not enough.

Derek Walcott

Stanley Lombardo speculates that the first twelve books divide into three performances:
matter on Ithaca and Telemachus's search; Odysseus's escape from Calypso and arrival
on Phaeacia; Odysseus's first-person narrative. The works listed below and in the
Odyssey 13-24 list either touch more than one subject or are not of sufficient number to
warrant a separate bibliography (as Circe or Polyphemus do).

Aiken, Conrad. “Preludes for Memnon X.” Collected Poems. 2nded. New York: Oxford
UP, 1970. 508ff.

Collins, Mortimer. "The Ivory Gate." A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1985. Ed. Edmund
Clarence Stedman. Boston: Houghton, 1986. 316.

Dove, Rita. "Nestor's Bathtub." Museum. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon UP, 1983. 16-17.

"Elpenor 1933." 275-80.

Fitzgerald, Robert. "Threnos." Spring Shade: Poems 1931-1970. New York: New
Directions, 1971. 14.

Flecker, James Elroy. "In Phæacia." The Home Book of Modern Verse. 1925. 2nded. Ed.
Burton Egbert Stevenson. New York: Holt, 1953. 84-85.

Gunn, Thom. "The Book of the Dead." Collected Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, 1994. 104-5.

Hacker, Marilyn. "Mythology."Love, Death, and t he Changing of the Seasons. New York:
Arbor, 1986. 48.

Hoggard, James. "Elpenor in Hell." Helios 6.1 (1978): 42.

Kinsella, Thomas. "Scylla and Charybdis." Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English
Verse. Ed. Philip Larkin. Oxford: Clarendon, 1973. 575.

Kiser, Carolyn. "The Copulating Gods." Midnight Was My Cry: New and Selected
Poems. Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1971. 8-9.

Lang, Andrew. "The Odyssey." XXXII Ballades in Blue China. London: C. Kegan Paul,
1881. 110.

Lattimore, Richmond. "Notes from the Odyssey: Elpenor." Poems from Three Decades.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972. 234.

Longley, Michael. "Anticleia."

Scott, Winfield Townley. "The Ivory Bed." Erotic Poetry: The Lyrics, Ballads, Idyls and
Epics of Love—Classical to Contemporary. Foreword Stephen Spender. Random
House, 1963. 404-5.

Ulisse, Peter. "Odyssey: 20 Year Later." Memory Is an Illusive State. 1995.Rpt.
Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing. 5thed. Ed. Edgar V. Roberts
and Henry E. Jaocbs. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998. 895.

Walcott, Derek. "Sea Grapes."