Volume 1, Number 2
Harrison's collection Flying Dutchmen includes a number of sonnets retelling traditional myths,
fairytales, and Biblical stories from the points of view of the women involved -- Cinderella, Beauty
(of Beauty and the Beast), Mary (the mother of Jesus), Eve, Penelope -- but the Leda sonnet is
the only one that rewrites a specific text (Yeats's poem) as well as the traditional story. Because
of this, I regret editor J. Paul Hunter's decision to replace "Leda's Version" with "Penelope."
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