Geography of the Odyssey from historical inquiries that Hesiod had made. The 2nd century BC poet-historian Apollodorus of Athens sympathises with Eratosthenes, believing that Homer imagined the wanderings as having taken place in a kind of fairyland in the Atlantic; he actively criticises the standard identifications in and around Sicily, and refuses to offer any identifications of his own. The 2nd century BC historian Polybius discusses the wanderings in book 34 of his history. He refutes Apollodorus' idea that the wanderings were in the Atlantic on the basis of "Odyssey" 9.82, where Odysseus says that he sailed for nine days from Cape Malea in
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