Victorian Sappho

"[A]n arresting book: the most penetrating on the poet sins Anne Carson's EROS THE BITTERSWEET (1987) and Joan DeJean's FICTIONS OF SAPPHO (1989)....[T]he topic of Sappho's 19th-century reception is multifaceted enough to allow for intense meditation on a host crucial literary-historical issues: the evolution and ideology of women's writing, the problem of translation, the uses of Hellenism, the history of English metrics, the nature of lyric. By any measure this book (Prins's first) is a debut of major ambition and considerable achievement."Prins, Yopie is the author of 'Victorian Sappho', published 1999 under ISBN 9780691059198 and ISBN 0691059195.