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Thomas Edwards (fl. 1587–1595) was an English poet who published two Ovidian epic poems Cephalus and Procris and Narcissus. [1] Beyond his name, nothing is known with certainty of Edwards. He has been provisionally identified with a Shropshire law student of that name who transferred from Furnival's Inn to Lincoln's Inn in June 1587, where he ...
This story is told from the perspective of the reflection pool in which Narcissus gazed at himself. Beginning immediately after Narcissus' death, the prose poem captures the Oreads and the pool grieving for the loss of Narcissus. Seeing that the pool has become a "cup of salt tears", the Oreads try to console the pool, saying that it must be ...
In the satirical Apocolocyntosis of Seneca the Younger, written soon after Narcissus' death, the servant greets his old master Claudius in Hades and runs ahead of him through the gates of the underworld. He is scared by Cerberus, a dog-beast so unlike the little white dog Narcissus is mentioned as owning in life. Robert Graves' novel I, Claudius.
As punishment, he was doomed to fall in love with his own reflection in a pool of water. Unable to consummate his love, Narcissus 'lay gazing enraptured into the pool, hour after hour', [ 3 ] and finally pined away, changing into a flower that bears his name, the narcissus .
Author and poet Rainer Maria Rilke visits the character and symbolism of Narcissus in several of his poems. Seamus Heaney references Narcissus in his poem "Personal Helicon" [14] from his first collection "Death of a Naturalist": To stare, big-eyed Narcissus, into some spring Is beneath all adult dignity. In Rick Riordan's Heroes of Olympus ...
Canticle V: The Death of Saint Narcissus, Op. 89, is a 1974 composition for tenor and harp by Benjamin Britten, the last part of his series of five Canticles. Britten set a poem by T. S. Eliot, beginning "Come under the shadow of this gray rock", published in Early Youth. He wrote it in memory of his friend William Plomer.
Echo and Narcissus is a myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses, a Roman mythological epic from the Augustan Age. The introduction of the mountain nymph , Echo , into the story of Narcissus , the beautiful youth who rejected Echo and fell in love with his own reflection, appears to have been Ovid's invention.
The flower has many names in Chinese culture, including water narcissus (since they can be grown in water) and seui sin faa (water immortal flowers). [95] In ancient Chinese culture the narcissus is referred to as water goddess of the Xiang River ( Chinese : 水仙 ; pinyin : shuǐ xiān ), or the "goddess standing above the waves" ( lingbo ...