The young people's quest inevitably attracts the jealous attention of the competitive academic world, and all too soon the quest becomes a chase. Roland Michell and Maud Bailey, two rather unfulfilled young literary scholars, unexpectedly become figures of romance as they discover a surprising link between the two poets on whom they are authorities.īyatt deftly plays with literary genres-Romantic quest, campus satire, detective story, myth, fairy tale-as Maud and Roland become deeply involved in the unfolding story of a secret relationship between the Victorian poets Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte. What emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passion and ideas. As a pair of young scholars research the lives of two Victorian poets, they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire-from spiritualist seances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany. Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story.
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