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Persephone in Poetry and Art

Joanna Swafford

University of Virginia

Criticism on Persephone

Below are links to criticism that discusses Persephone in nineteenth century literature.
"Proserpine and Pessimism: Goddesses of Death, Life, and Language from Swinburne to Wharton,"  by Margot K. Louis
"Gods and Mysteries: The Revival of Paganism and the Remaking of Mythography through the Nineteenth Century" Margot K. Louis
"Because I, Persephone, Could Not Stop for Death: Emily Dickinson and the Goddess" by Ken Hiltner 
Walter Pater's "The Myth of Demeter and Persephone"