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The Lotos-Eaters is a poem by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, published in Tennyson's 1832 poetry collection. It was inspired by his trip to Spain with his close friend Arthur Hallam , where they visited the Pyrenees mountains.
"The Lotus Eater" is a short story by British author W. Somerset Maugham in 1935 and loosely based on the life story of John Ellingham Brooks. It was included in the 1940 collection of Maugham stories The Mixture as Before .
The lotus fruit is about the size of the lentisk berry and in sweetness resembles the date. [5] The lotus-eaters even succeed in obtaining from it a sort of wine. [6] Polybius identifies the land of the lotus-eaters as the island of Djerba (ancient Meninx), off the coast of Tunisia. [1] Later, this identification is supported by Strabo. [7]
The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Edited with a Critical Introduction, Commentaries and Notes, together with the Various Readings, a Transcript of the Poems Temporarily and Finally Suppressed and a Bibliography by John Churton Collins. With ten illustrations in Photogravure by W. E. F. Britten.
The post office on Westland Row is the setting of episode 5 ("Lotus Eaters"). Sweny's Pharmacy on Lombard Street, where Bloom purchases soap, and Lincoln Place [15] are also settings of episode 5 ("Lotus Eaters"). The Freeman's Journal on Prince's Street, [16] off of O'Connell Street, is the setting of episode 7 ("Aeolus").
Lotus Eaters, an instrumental for guitars by Andrew York; Keane (band), formerly The Lotus Eaters, an English alternative rock band; The Lotus Eaters, a 2004 Dead Can Dance tribute album "The Lotus Eaters", a song by Dead Can Dance from Dead Can Dance (1981–1998) "Lotus Eaters", a song by Moloko from Do You Like My Tight Sweater?
These are detailed in Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. At first they landed in the land of the Ciconians in Ismara. After looting the land they were driven back with many casualties. A storm off Cape Maleas drove them to uncharted waters. They landed in the land of the Lotus-eaters. There a scouting party ate from the lotus tree and forgot ...
Tatjana Soli is an American novelist and short-story writer. Her first novel, The Lotus Eaters (2010), won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (UK), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize, was a New York Times Bestseller, and a New York Times 2010 Notable Book.