Today’s poem is Tennyson’s imaginative answer to the question that many lovers of Homer have when they read Dante for the first time–what could carry Odysseus, that man of many twists and turns, away from Ithaca again after so many years spent trying to get back? Today, the first two thirds of this blank verse poem; tomorrow, the conclusion. Happy readi…
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