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Ulysses
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Ulysses

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

As everyone who has read Homer’s Odyssey knows, the long-wandering Odysseus manages to make his way home to Ithaca, to his faithful wife Penelope, his son Telemachus whom he left twenty years before when the boy was a little baby, his aged father Laertes, his estate, and the few servants that have remained faithful to him and his family, with an unshaka…

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Poem of the Week
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