The Sappho history / Margaret Reynolds.
The Sappho history / Margaret Reynolds.
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New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Date
2003.
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N809.93351/33
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English
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311 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Mary Robinson's Attitudes -- 3. Picturing Sappho -- 4. Fragments of an Elegy -- 5. The Woman Poet Sings Sappho's Last Song -- 6. Poisonous Honey -- 7. Sappho's Fatal Book -- 8. The Island and the Mirror -- 9. Epilogue: Virginia's Sapphists.
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Publisher
New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2003.
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"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 early twentieth century. For women writers in the Romantic period, she symbolised possibility; for the young Tennyson, she was a private ancestor helping him make his own name a...
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The Sappho history / Margaret Reynolds.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N809.93351/33
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74Vvlk8z7a0d
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0333971701 (hbk.)
9780333971703
0333971701
9780333971703 :
0333971701 :
9780333971703 (hbk.)
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809.93351
884.01
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991017479149702626
