Helen Redeemed and Other Poems

Helen Redeemed and Other Poems is a 1913 verse collection by Maurice Hewlett (1861-1923), the English novelist and poet. The title poem is a long narrative in couplets retelling the story of Helen of Troy from the fall of the city, working the redemption of Helen through Menelaus’s forgiveness as the Greek fleet carries her home. Hewlett took his poetry more seriously than the historical romances that made his living, and his verse epic The Song of the Plow, on the English rural labourer through history, was his own favourite among his works. The collection shows the classical and chivalric materials of his fiction worked in metre, in the late-Victorian narrative verse tradition of William Morris. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.