Great Regulars: This week's poem is an extract

from "Medea in Athens", one of a number of psychologically complex dramatic monologues by the remarkable Victorian poet, Augusta Webster. The poem is from her 1879 collection, Portraits, and you can read the full text here.

Webster was well-qualified to write about Medea. As a girl, she had studied classical Greek, ostensibly to help her brother, but no doubt also driven by her own considerable literary ambitions. Her translation of the Medea of Euripides was published in 1868.

from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: Poem of the week: Medea in Athens by Augusta Webster

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