Sappho
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Standard Name: Sappho
Birth Name: Sappho
Used Form: Sapho
Sappho
, the female poet who stands at the head of the lyric tradition in Europe, has been a major figure of identification, of desire, of influence, of adulation, and of opprobrium in British women's writing, though little remains of her texts. All of her estimated 12,000 lines of verse has been lost except a handful of complete poems and many fragments, either quotations of her work by other writers, or scraps deciphered from papyri used to wrap mummies in ancient Egypt. This mutilated body of work amounts to somewhere around seven hundred intelligible lines.
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Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Each issue of To the Imitator was priced at sixpence. One appeared through a trade publisher, James Roberts
, and one through a mercury, Anne Dodd
. Both these were pamphlet-producers who offered... |
Textual Production | Christina Rossetti | In Sappho, as also in another poem on the Greek lyricist written two years later, fifteen-year-old CR
signalled her interest in the female poetic tradition. Rossetti, Christina. The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Editor Crump, Rebecca W., Louisiana State University Press. 3: 392, 423 |
Textual Production | Anne Carson | AC
's poetry collection Men in the Off Hours, 2000, variously inhabits the minds (and bodies) of Tolstoy
, Lazarus, Freud
, Catullus
, Sappho
and Emily Dickinson
, not to mention the French... |
Textual Production | Anne Carson | AC
's translations from Greek manage to incorporate some of the quirkiness of her original texts and titles. She titled If Not, Winter. Fragments of Sappho, 2002, from a poetic scrap that leaves the... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Jane Turell
of Massachusetts (a generation younger than ESR
, the daughter of her old admirer Benjamin Colman
) emulated Rowe so single-mindedly that Melanie Bigold
feels she became a kind of American Rowe. She... |
Textual Production | Catherine Carswell | |
Textual Production | Arabella Shore | It reprints some old and presents some new work, including a version of the popular Last Song of Sappho. Death and Immortality, the lead piece in the collection, was the last she had... |
Textual Production | Sarah Lewis | The American Sarah Lewis
published her play Sappho
, A Tragedy in Five Acts (which was reviewed in England and France, as well as the United States). At least two sources, American Women... |
Textual Production | Edith Sitwell | ES
loved Christina Rossetti
from her childhood, and later thoroughly admired Gertrude Stein
. As a young woman, however, she believed: Women's poetry, with the exception of Sappho
. . . and Goblin MarketChristina Rossetti
and... |
Textual Production | Alexander Pope | His early translation Sapho
to Phaon—which, like Ovid
's original, represents the woman poet as despairingly in love with a man who has rejected her—appeared in print in 1712 in the eighth edition of... |
Textual Production | Stevie Smith | Someone suggested that SS
should translate Sappho
, but she responded that I can't make head nor tail of that ancient girl. Smith, Stevie. Me Again. Editors Barbera, Jack and William McBrien, Vintage. 294 |
Textual Production | Anne Dacier | The future AD
issued a translation unconnected with the Delphin project and through a different publisher: Les Poésies d'Anacréon
et de Sapho
, traduites de grec en français. Grosperrin, Jean-Philippe, and Christine Dousset-Seiden, editors. “Les époux Dacier: une bibliographie”. Littératures classiques: les époux Dacier, Honoré Champion, pp. 259-86. 262 |
Textual Production | Jane Porter | In 1800 appeared a pamphlet essay which may be by JP
or to her and her sister
: A Defence of the Profession of an Actor. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts: A Catalogue of Books By, For, and About Women of the British Isles, 1696-1892. Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and Thomas McLean |
Textual Production | Michael Field | Writing as MF
, Katharine Harris Bradley
and Edith Cooper
published Long Ago, a collection of poems written around the surviving fragments of Sappho
. Prins, Yopie. Victorian Sappho. Princeton University Press. 93 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Textual Production | Mary Catherine Hume | MCH
's Sappho
, A Poem, criticises male supremacy and celebrates the capacities of women. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
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