Sporting with Smaryllis Hardcover - 1996
by Paul West
Paul West is one of our most acclaimed writers, author of such novels as Rat Man of Paris and Lord Byron's Doctor. This time out, he astounds us with a novel on the nature of creative genius and its nexus with sexuality, a novel at turns erotic, lewd, philosophical mythical, and spiritual.
From the rear cover
Taking as his point of departure the sexual obsessions and initiation of the poet John Milton, Paul West elucidates the psychology of an artist who would come to create the most enduring and compelling work of Western civilization on the subject of Original Sin. But that all comes later. Now, young Milton is a Cambridge student, a virgin, intoxicated by the power of words and the stories of myth - and especially the myth of Amaryllis, the shepherdess in Virgil. When he meets her on a crowded London street, and is led mutely to her odd dwelling, hung with the dripping animal skins and shared with a philosophizing, castrated expert on plague remedies, he encounters a living myth so powerful as to make his earlier learning - his religion, really - pale by comparison. Is she a prostitute? A witch? A myth sprung to life? All that and more, as she invites Milton to use her as his Muse.
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- Title Sporting with Smaryllis
- Author Paul West
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Overlook Press, New York
- Date 1996-12-01
- Features Dust Cover
- ISBN 9780879516666 / 0879516666
- Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 8.24 x 5.58 x 0.65 in (20.93 x 14.17 x 1.65 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Biographical fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96-22766
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 11/01/1996, Page 482
- Kirkus Reviews, 10/01/1996, Page 1425
- Library Journal, 11/15/1996, Page 90
- New York Times, 04/06/1997, Page 14
- Publishers Weekly, 10/07/1996, Page 59
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