"I was more than your echo": Feminist Revisioning of the Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Poems of H.D. and Margaret Atwood
The ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice has been of interest to readers and writers across the ages. However, Ovid's version and many subsequent retellings have focused on Orpheus' character. H.D.'s poem "Eurydice" and Margaret Atwood's poem "Orpheus (1)" are two of the first revisions of the Orphic myth from Eurydice's perspective. In this essay, I c
