Eros Turannos (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edwin Arlington Robinson
- First Published: 1916
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Husbands, Wives, Mythology or myths, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Marriage, New England, Gods or goddesses
The Poem
“Eros Turannos” (“tyrannic love”) is an incisive verse portrait of forty-eight lines, depicting an aging wife willing to lead a life of self-deception to hold onto her marriage with a worthless husband. The noteworthy twentieth century poet and critic Yvor Winters, in Edwin Arlington Robinson (1946), considers this poem to be not only one of the best in the Robinson canon but also “one of the greatest short poems in the language.” It first appeared in the same 1913 issue of Poetry that published the first group of Carl Sandburg’s...
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