Poem Title |
Original Publication |
CP Page no |
Epic Love |
Raw Material, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 2011 |
Not included in CP |
Length / Form Eight-line stanzas, laid out on the page in imitation of the elegiac meter (with alternate lines indented).
Allusion to Classical figure Ponticus, House of Atreus, Homer, Muses, Jove
Allusion to Classical place Thebes
Close translation of words/phrases/excerpts The first half of the poem is a version of Propertius' Elegies I, 7, whilst the second half draws on Elegies II, 1 and 13.
Comment The Sextus and Cynthia poems were first published in a limited edition (Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 2009).