Sunday, April 19, 2015

Wikipedia picture of the day for April 20






The Lotos-Eaters

"The Lotos-Eaters " is a poem by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, published in his 1832 poetry collection. Written after a trip to Spain, it describes group of mariners who, upon eating the lotos, are put into an altered state and isolated from the outside world. The poem is inspired by a similar scene in Homer's Odyssey . This illustration, completed by W. E. F. Britten for a 1901 printing of Tennyson's works, accompanies the lines:



Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind,

In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined

On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.



Illustration: W. E. F. Britten; restoration: Adam Cuerden






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