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The Triumph of Achilles is a collection of poetry by Louise Glück, published in 1985 by Ecco Press. [1] It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. [2] The work concerns themes from classical antiquity and myth. [3] Literary critic Daniel Morris describes it as a "pivotal work" in Glück's oeuvre. [3]
In the wake of that tragedy, Glück began to write the poems that would later be collected in her award-winning work, The Triumph of Achilles (1985). Writing in The New York Times , the author and critic Liz Rosenberg described the collection as "clearer, purer, and sharper" than Glück's previous work. [ 37 ]
Achilles is the subject of the poem Achilleis (1799), a fragment by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In 1899, the Polish playwright, painter and poet Stanisław Wyspiański published a national drama, based on Polish history, named Achilles. In 1921, Edward Shanks published The Island of Youth and Other Poems, concerned among others with Achilles.
Based upon three references to the poem in the Silvae, the Achilleid seems to have been composed between 94 and 96 CE. [1] At Silvae 4. 7. 21–24, Statius complains that he lacks the motivation to make progress upon his "Achilles" without the company of his friend C. Vibius Maximus who was travelling in Dalmatia (and to whom poem is addressed). [2]
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Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer, a poem in rhyme royal telling a tragic love story set during the war; derived from the above works. The Rawlinson Excidium Troie; The Seege of Troye, a Middle English poem based on "Dares" and Benoît. The Laud Troy Book, another Middle English poem, written about 1400.
Sing, goddess, the deadly wrath of Achilles, Peleus' son, which caused for the Achæans countless woes, [47] Lang, Andrew: 1844–1912, Scots poet, historian, critic, folk tales collector, etc. 1882 [48] London, Macmillan Sing, goddess, the wrath of Achilles Peleus' son, the ruinous wrath that brought on the Achaians woes innumerable, [49] Leaf ...
Pisidice's treason and subsequent death sentence was a subject of the Hellenistic poem The Founding of Lesbos, which Parthenius of Nicaea quoted and used as a source in his work Love Romances. [9] Although Parthenius does not mention the poem's authorship, it is generally attributed to Apollonius Rhodius by modern scholars, [ 16 ] though this ...