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Feb 11, 2014JCLAmandaH rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
"Possession" is a love letter to literature, by way of celebrating poetry, exploring the world of academia, and presenting meditations on the meaning of words and language itself. The story follows two couples, one a pair of Victorian poets and the other two modern day scholars studying said poets. When a mysterious lost letter is found suggesting a heretofore unknown link between the two poets, our present day academics embark on a literary quest to uncover the secrets of the past. A. S. Byatt weaves such a spell with the world-building for the Victorian characters, from selections of their poetry and letters to flashbacks from their own points of view, that you might repeatedly question whether they were real historical figures or not.