The Sappho History

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.

Author: M. Reynolds
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 05/23/2003
Pages: 311
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.53lbs
Size: 9.54h x 6.26w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780333971703

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/2003 pg. 76
Women's Review of Books 01/01/2004 pg. 8
Choice 03/01/2004 pg. 1293

About the Author
MARGARET REYNOLDS is Reader in English at Queen Mary, University of London and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Her publications include The Sappho Companion, Victorian Women Poets (with Angela Leighton) and The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories. Her 1992 edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. She is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's Adventures in Poetry.