Derek Mahon: Immortality

*Poem Title*	*Original Publication*	CP Page no
*Immortality*	Raw Material, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 2011	Not included in CP

Allusion to Classical figure Orpheus, Dionysus, Bacchae

Allusion to Classical place Lydia, Rome, Egyptian pyramids

Close translation of words/phrases/excerpts The poem is loosely based on Propertius' Elegies III, 2.

Comment The Sextus and Cynthia poems were first published in a limited edition (Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 2009).

Classical Receptions in Drama and Poetry in English from c.1970