The Sappho History

by Margaret Reynolds

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333971701
• ISBN13: 9780333971703
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"