Homer begins the Iliad invoking the anger of Achilles; Virgil, in the Aeneid, sings of arms and the man; in “Leaves of Grass,” Whitman celebrates himself. And then there is the first verse of the ...
Odlin Redon, “Head of a Young Woman” (c. 1900-1916) (Photo: Harvard Art Museums, © President and Fellows of Harvard College) Symbolist artists — including ...