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The story of Eros & Psyche (retold from Apuleius)

Chapter 59: BOOKS BY EDWARD CARPENTER
By Edward Carpenter
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A prose retelling of a classical myth follows a mortal woman whose extraordinary beauty wins the love of the god of love, initiates a secret union, and then triggers a painful separation when trust is broken. She endures a sequence of daunting tasks imposed by a jealous goddess, gains aid from sympathetic powers, and through perseverance achieves reconciliation and divine favor. The narrative is followed by a collection of early lyrical poems by the reteller that move from pastoral description and devotional reflection to meditations on art, death, and the human spirit, using vivid natural and mythic imagery throughout.

O changeless in thy beauty, stedfast, strong,
 Exultant in the calm of victory,
 A mighty poet flung thee forth, to be
 A part of Nature. So that I, thus long
 Listening to thy majestic voices, dream
 Of some vast snow-veiled mountain far away,
 Whose front is crimson fire at orient day;
 Where in the dark Dian’s silver lances gleam;
 Where shadows of the tireless storm-wreathed mist
 Move on in changeless interchange; where call
 Clamorous echoes of the waterfall
 From crag to crag; whom Night alone hath kissed,
 And everlasting silence, and the far
 Glimmering magic of the Morning star.

November, 1869.

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UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED
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BOOKS BY EDWARD CARPENTER

ANGELS’ WINGS: Essays on Art and its Relation to Life. Illustrated. Cr. 8vo, 5s. net.

[Seventh Edition.

ART OF CREATION, THE: Essays on the Self and its Powers. Cr. 8vo, 6s. net.

[Fifth Edition.

CHANTS OF LABOUR: a Songbook for the People, with frontispiece and cover by Walter Crane. Cr. 8vo, 2s. 6d. net.

[Sixth Edition.

CIVILIZATION: ITS CAUSE AND CURE. Essays on Modern Science. New and much enlarged Edition. Cr. 8vo. Cloth, 7s. 6d. net.

DAYS WITH WALT WHITMAN, with Portraits. Cr. 8vo, 7s. 6d. net.

[Third Edition.

THE DRAMA OF LOVE AND DEATH: a Study of Human Evolution and Transfiguration. Cr. 8vo, 6s. net.

[Third Edition.

ENGLAND’S IDEAL. Cr. 8vo. Cloth, 3s. 6d. net, and Limp Cloth, 2s. 6d. net.

[Ninth Edition.

FROM ADAM’S PEAK TO ELEPHANTA: Sketches in Ceylon and India. Illustrated. Large Cr. 8vo, 8s. 6d. net.

[Fourth Edition.

HEALING OF NATIONS, THE. Cr. 8vo. Cloth, 3s. 6d. net. Paper, 2s. 6d. net.

[Sixth Edition.

THE INTERMEDIATE SEX: a Study of some Transitional Types of Men and Women. Cr. 8vo, 5s. net.

[Sixth Edition.

INTERMEDIATE TYPES AMONG PRIMITIVE FOLK: a Study in Social Evolution. 8vo, 5s. net.

[Second Edition.

IOLAUS: an Anthology of Friendship. Cr. 8vo, 4s. 6d. net.

[Fifth Edition Enlarged.

LOVE’S COMING OF AGE: on the Relations of the Sexes, with an additional chapter from DRAMA OF LOVE AND DEATH. 8vo, 5s. net.

[Twelfth Edition.

MY DAYS AND DREAMS: being Autobiographical Notes with Portraits and Illustrations. Demy 8vo, 8s. 6d. net.

[Third Edition.

PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN CREEDS. Demy 8vo, 10s. 6d. net.

[Second Edition.

THE PROMISED LAND: a Drama of a People’s Deliverance. A new and revised edition of “Moses.” Cr. 8vo, 3s. 6d. net.

TOWARDS DEMOCRACY. Pocket Edition, 5s. net.

[Fourteenth Edition.

TOWARDS INDUSTRIAL FREEDOM. Cr. 8vo. Cloth, 3s. 6d. net. Paper. 2s. 6d. net.

[Second Impression.

A VISIT TO A GÑANI. Large Cr. 8vo. Half Cloth, 3s. 6d. net.

[Second Edition.

THE STORY OF EROS AND PSYCHE: together with SOME EARLY VERSES. Cr. 8vo. Cloth, 4s. 6d. net.

PHOTOGRAVURE PORTRAIT OF EDWARD CARPENTER, with autograph. 8s. 6d. net.