ABSTRACT
Alfred Lord Tennyson (in 1833) an English Romantic and C. P. Cavafy (in 1911) a Modern Greek each offer a meditation on Odysseus’s nostos, his long journey home. By contrast with Homer and the ancients, and, as the modern world will have it, both Tennyson and Cavafy value the journey over the destination. Yet the nature of their valuing is so different. And this difference—and the way that it is created—is interesting indeed.
