Arsinoë’s Cats

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Arsinoë’s Cats

Poet(s)

Unsigned

Credits

Translator

Watson, Rosamund Marriott

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Longman’s Magazine 11:65, 572, March 1888.

First line

Arsinoë the fair, the amber-tressed

Authorship

Unsigned

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

Greek

Notes and attribution research

Translation signed Graham R. Tomson, which is the pseudonym of Rosamund Marriott Watson. Poem included in the prose contribution At the Sign of the Ship by Andrew Lang (567-74). Lang suggests the poem is reminiscent of Agathias or Marcus Argentarius. A note to Watson’s republication of the poem says it is in [i]mitation of the manner of the later Greek poets, cir. A. D. 500. Cats were unknown in historic Greece till about the Christian era; see Graham R. Tomson, The Bird-Bride. A Volume of Ballads and Sonnets, Longmans, Green, and Company, 1889, p. 62. (AC)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 18821

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Arsinoë’s Cats