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
The Dream, and Other Poems composed by Lenox-Conyngham, which do not have English translations, and two more Italian sonnets which have been written by other poets, Vincenzo da Filicaja (1642-1707) and De Coureil (1760-1822) translated by Lenox-Conyngham. She is a poet of many languages, as not only does she engage with Italian, she has translated 5 poems of F. Von Matthisson (1761-1831) from German into English. There are 16 poems about death; 3 about war; 2 about humanity and exile; 1 on friendship; 1 on travel, and; 1 on femininity. 21 of these poems include allusions to Christianity. The first poem, which also takes the