Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses
                                            
                            By Edith Wharton
                            
                                12 Sep, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        A collection of twenty-four poems from one of the best writers of prose of her generation. As the title suggests, many of the poems draw on classical antiquity, be it lyrical re-imaginings about or based on mythic figures (Actaeon, Marsyas in 'Life'
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                                                A collection of twenty-four poems from one of the best writers of prose of her generation. As the title suggests, many of the poems draw on classical antiquity, be it lyrical re-imaginings about or based on mythic figures (Actaeon, Marsyas in 'Life', 'Orpheus'), or elsewhere merely drawing on that vast pool of allusions. Less