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Persephone in Poetry and Art

Joanna Swafford

University of Virginia

Proserpine in Poetry

Below are some links to Victorian poems that examine the figure of Proserpine.
Swinburne's "Hymn to Proserpine" (Courtesy of the Swinburne Project, peer-reviewed by NINES)
Swinburne's "The Garden of Proserpine" (Courtesy of the Swinburne Project, peer-reviewed by NINES)
Rossetti's "Proserpine" (Courtesy of the Rossetti Archive, Peer-reviewed by NINES)
Tennyson's "Demeter and Persephone"