Possession | Characters
Byatt creates two sets of characters, Victorian and modern; the Victorian characters are not only the professional focus of most of the modern characters but in some cases are their ancestors. The Victorians are so well characterized that some readers have assumed that they were real people rather than fictional creations — Byatt even includes some of "their" poems in the novel — and in fact they seem to be based in part on actual Victorian poets.
Randolph Ash, poet and dramatist, resembles the two great Victorian poets Robert Browning and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Ash's poetry...
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