The Sappho History
Margaret Reynolds
The Sappho History traces the story of the reception of Sappho’s poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the Romantic period to the present day. For women writers in the Romantic period, she symbolized possibility. For the young Tennyson, she was a private ancestor, helping him make his own name as a poet. Reynolds demonstrates how Sappho’s themes of desire, loss, and the memory of desire are recuperated and refashioned in her successors’ work. Richly illustrated throughout, The Sappho History provides a new view of Western culture.
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| ISBN | 333971701 |
| Genre | Literary Criticism; Non-Fiction |
| Publication Date | 19-Aug-03 |
| Publisher | Palgrave |
| Format | Hardcover |
| No. of Pages | 301 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| BookID | 11039 |
