Deer

Paul Shepard on Deer

Questions and comments to guide the reading of Homer, Ovid, and Harjo.

Poems:

From "The Grace of the Witch" in The Odysseyby Homer (translated , Robert Fitzgerald)

W. B. Yeats (1865-1939): The Two Kings (Select first link, # 1 in index)

Chana Bloch: Deer in the Bush

Joy Harjo: Deer Dancer

Gerald Hausman: The Story of the White Deer Named Virginia Dare (scroll down to last story on this link/page)

Diana and Actaeon from Ovid's Metamorphoses