Poem Title |
Original Publication |
CP Page no |
The Chimeras |
Adaptations, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 2006 |
Not included in CP |
Length / Form Fourteen-line sonnets
Allusion to Classical figure Siren, Orpheus, Dionysus, Muse, Virgil, Iris (Kneph, Isis, Cybele, Hermes, Osiris), Anteros, Antaeus, Cadmus/Jason, Daphne, Python, sibyl, Artemis/Diana, Pythagoras
Allusion to Classical place Posilippo, Styx, Cocytus, Delphi, Arch of Constantine
Classical/post-Classical intertexts The eight poems in this series are reworkings of Gerard de Nerval's sonnet sequence Les Chimères (1854, appended to the short story collection Les filles du feu).
Comment Mahon first published these translations as a separate collection in 1982, Dublin: The Gallery Press.