The Sappho History

2003. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-333-97170-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 311 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 694 g

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. 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. Richly illustrated throughout, The Sappho History provides a new view of Western culture from the Romantic period to the Modern.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reynolds, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Mary Robinson's Attitudes Picturing Sappho Fragments of an Elegy The Woman Poet Sings Sappho's Last Song Poisonous Honey Sappho's Fatal Book Speaking Spaces Epilogue: Virginia's Sapphists Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

MARGARET REYNOLDS is Reader in English at Queen Mary, University of London and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Her publications include , (with Angela Leighton) and . Her 1992 edition of won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. She is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's Adventures in Poetry.