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The Sappho History. By MARGARET REYNOLDS. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. xii+311 pp. 19.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-97170-1.
The Sappho History is an entertaining account of the reception of Sappho from the mid-eighteenth century to the early twentieth, which attempts to account for the attraction Sappho's poetry and reputation held for a variety of writers and artists. The discussion is at its most energetic and exuberant when focused on women such as Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans, Christina Rossetti, 'Michael Field', and H. D., but the book also...
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