Ulysses and the Sirens Jon Elster used the name of Draper's painting as the title for his 1979 book about rationality and precommitment. Ulysses and the Sirens Ulysses and the Sirens is a 1909 oil painting by Herbert James Draper measuring 69.25 x 84 in. It is held at the Ferens Art Gallery in Kingston upon Hull, England. The gallery purchased the painting from Draper in 1910 for £600. Draper also painted a reduced replica that is housed at the Leeds Art Gallery. The subject of the painting is an episode in the epic poem "Odyssey" by Homer in which Ulysses is tormented by
Poems (Tennyson, 1842) many seeing him as the leading poet of the younger generation, worthy of one day being made Poet Laureate. Poems (Tennyson, 1842) Poems, by Alfred Tennyson, was a two-volume 1842 collection in which new poems and reworked older ones were printed in separate volumes. It includes some of Tennyson's finest and best-loved poems, such as "Mariana", "The Lady of Shalott", "The Palace of Art", "The Lotos Eaters", "Ulysses", "Locksley Hall", "The Two Voices", "Sir Galahad", and "Break, Break, Break". It helped to establish his reputation as one of the greatest poets of his time. The first volume of the book