Eros and Psyche

By Bridges, Robert

Book Id: WPLBN0002951717
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File Size: 63.31 MB
Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	Eros and Psyche
Author:	Bridges, Robert
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Fiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Eros and Psyche
Historic Publication Date:	1885
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Bridges, B. R. (1885). Eros and Psyche. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

Description
Bridges' Eros and Psyche retells the Eros (= Cupid) and Psyche myth first recorded by Lucius Apuleius in his book The Golden Ass. The poem is divided into twelve cantos - one for each of the twelve months of the year - which gives the poem a certain, almost pastoral feel. The number of stanzas in each canto equals the number of days in that month: so the first canto March has 31 stanzas, the second canto April has 30 stanzas, and so on. Each stanza is a septet (ie comprises exactly seven lines) which follow the same end-rhyming schema of a-b-a-b-c-c-b.(Summary by Godsend)

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Fiction