Proserpine is a verse drama written for children by the English Romantic writers Mary Shelley and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary wrote the blank verse drama and Percy contributed two lyric poems. Composed in 1820 while the Shelleys were living in Italy, it is often considered a partner to the Shelleys' play Midas. Proserpine was first published in the London periodical The Winter's Wreath in 1832. Whether the drama was ever intended to be staged is a point of debate among scholars.
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Proserpine (also Proserpina or Persephone) is an oil painting on canvas by English artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, painted in 1874 and now in Tate Britain. Rossetti began work on the painting in 1871 and painted at least eight separate versions, the last only completed in 1882, the year of his death. Early versions were promised to Charles Augustus Howell. The painting discussed in this article is the so-called seventh version commissioned by Frederick Richards Leyland, now at the Tate Gallery, with the very similar final version now at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
Both Proserpina and Proserpine remind me of the word "prosperous," which is a great meaning in my eyes. I must say that I much prefer this variant, though. I think I like Proserpine more than Persephone, in fact.
Proserpine is a character in Roman mythology (which found its roots in Greek mythology of course). I've heard this name to mean "bringer of destruction", but I just think of the myth when I hear "Proserpine". I think this name is absolutely beautiful. I love it.