Cyclops

Ulysses is dead
by now he's dead
And how wise was he
who blinded a thing of immortality?
Gregory Corso

The name cyclops means, literally “circle eye,” an apt description. Less easy to explain is
why the cyclops blinded by Odysseus, who lives a solitary existence alone in a cave with
his flocks, is named Polyphemus (“many speakings”).

Literature

Atwood, Margaret. "Cyclops." Procedures for Underground. Boston: Little, Brown,
1970. 42-43.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrtt. "The Cyclops." An Anthology of World Poetry.

Corso, Gregory. “Mortal Infliction.” The Happy Birthday of Death.New York: New
Directions, 1960. 69.

Dugan, Alan. "On Zero." Poems 3. New Haven: Yale UP, 1967. 15-18.

Elftmann, Gregory. "Polyphemus Academicus." Helios6.1 6 (1978): 60.

Eurypides. Cyclops. [A lost satyr play.]

Lawrence, D. H. "Know Thyself, and That Thou Art Mortal." Pansies. Brooklyn, NY:
Theo. Gans' Sons, 1929; Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. 174-77.

Parker, Alexander A. Polyphemus and Galatea by Luis de Góngora: A Study in the
Interpretation of a Baroque Poem. Verse trans. Gilbert F. Cunningham. Latin
trans. David West of Ovid, Met. 13.738-897.

Rudnik, Raphael. “A Lesson from the Cyclops (Cyclops Speaks).” A Lesson from the
Cyclops and Other Poems.New York: Random House, 1969. 44-45.

Shea, Michael. Polyphemus: Stories by Michael Shea. Foreword Algis Budrys. Illus. John
Stewart. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1987. [One of seven stories.]

Shoaf, Diann Blakely. "Polyphemus." Shenandoah (Summer 1994):

Snodgrass, W. D. "Mητιξ . . . Oμτιζ [sic]: For R. M. Powell."

Tomlinson, Charles. "Mythology." Times Literary Supplement 30 Aug. 1996:

Criticism

Scott, Shirley, Clay. "Man, Mind, and Monster: Polyphemus from Homer through
Joyce." Classical and Modern Literature (1995) 19-75.

Children's Books

Fisher, Leonard Everett. Cyclops. Illus. the author. New York: Holiday House, 1991.
[28p.]

Hutton, Warwick. Odysseus and the Cyclops. Illus. the author. New York: Margaret K.
McElderry, 1995. [unpaged.]

Evslin, Bernard. The Cyclops.. Monsters of Mythology Series. New York: Chelsea
House, 1987. 96p.