Phantasia (poet) Phantasia (poet) Phantasia is the name of an ancient Egyptian woman who was said to have been the author of the immediate sources of the two ancient Greek epics, "Iliad" and "Odyssey", attributed to Homer. According to a fiction retold by the Byzantine scholar Eustathius of Thessalonica and attributed by him to "a certain Naucrates", Phantasia, daughter of Nicarchus of Memphis, an inspired poet, wrote poems about the war in the plains of Troy and the wanderings of Odysseus, and deposited these books in the temple of Hephaestus at Memphis. Homer afterwards visited the shrine, persuaded the priests to make
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