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"Ulysses" is a poem in blank verse by the ... Quoting three lines of "Ulysses" in an 1842 letter to Tennyson— ... Excerpts from "Ulysses" are given line numbers in ...
Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce.Partially serialized in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, the entire work was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's fortieth birthday.
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Ulysses by James Joyce. The novel to end all novels, I suppose. The novel to end all novels, I suppose. The story of one day in Dublin – all human life is there.
Blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, usually in iambic pentameter. It has been described as "probably the most common and influential form that English poetry has taken since the 16th century", [1] and Paul Fussell has estimated that "about three quarters of all English poetry is in blank verse". [2]
Also, I've seen that nine separate sections or lines of the poem are included in Bartlett's Famous Quotations (15th Ed.), which is a lot for a 70-line poem; is this any kind of useful metric for the poem's fame or degree of canonization? Wasted Time R 02:27, 24 November 2007 (UTC) Thanks for your comments here.
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A mosaic depicting Odysseus, from the villa of La Olmeda, Pedrosa de la Vega, Spain, late 4th–5th centuries AD. The Odyssey begins after the end of the ten-year Trojan War (the subject of the Iliad), from which Odysseus (also known by the Latin variant Ulysses), king of Ithaca, has still not returned because he angered Poseidon, the god of the sea.