THE ANCIENT MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE
"The debt of literature to the myth-makers of the Mediterranean has been an endless one starting at Mt. Olympus, and flowing down in fertilizing streams through all the literary ages."
—James A. Harrison
Icarus.
Poetical Works. Bayard Taylor. P. 88.
Orpheus with his Lute.
Henry VIII. William Shakespeare. Act. iii, scene i.
Iphigenia and Agamemnon.
The Shades of Agamemnon and Iphigenia. Poems and Dialogues in Verse. Walter Savage Landor. Vol. i, p. 78.
Venus and Vulcan.
Poetical Works. John G. Saxe. P. 238.
Pandora.
Poetical Works. Bayard Taylor. P. 203.
The Legend of St. Mark.
Poetical Works. John G. Whittier. P. 36.
Icarus: or the Peril of the Borrowed Plumes.
Poetical Works. John G. Saxe. P. 229.
Laodamia.
Complete Poetical Works. William Wordsworth. P. 525.
The Lotus Eaters
Poetical Works. Alfred Tennyson. P. 51.
The Shepherd of King Admetus.
Complete Poetical Works. James Russell Lowell. P. 44.
Classic Myths in English Literature. C. M. Gayley. P. 131.
Ceres.
Bliss Carman. Literary Digest. Vol. xlv, p. 347.
Persephone.
Poetical Works. Jean Ingelow. P. 181.