Poetry

List of works Poetry | Odyssey Plot The new Odyssey begins from where Homer’s Odyssey leaves off. Consisting of 33.333 17-syllable lines, it was justly named “the greatest epic of the white race”. Having killed the suitors, Odysseus grows bored on his small island; he no longer fits in with his wife, his son, the …

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List of works Poetry | Tertsina Description Twenty-two cantos, dedicated to people who had a significant role to play in the author’s life and thought. Written in Dante’s terza rima, the metre used in the Divine Comedy, which features a triple rhyme. Kazantzakis regarded the cantos as “bodyguards” or “satellites” of the Odyssey and aimed …

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