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.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | E. B. C. Jones | The book positions itself in relation to cultural, social and emotional markers that are not those of a majority in later times. Helen and Felicia read Northanger Abbey aloud, and Helen admits it to be... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Hume | AH
's version of Petrarch is both forceful and stylistically elegant, even when dealing in conventional style with the pangs of love. Her opening lines have a vigorous forward movement which is perhaps superior even... |
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. |
Literary responses | Laurence Hope | A number of evaluations of Hope's work appeared at her death. Thomas Hardy
's obituary for her, printed in the Athenæum, praised the tropical luxuriance and Sapphic
fervour of The Garden of Káma... |
Leisure and Society | Felicia Hemans | She wrote of Paganini
's playing that its predominant expression was that of overpowering, passionate regret . . . it seemed as if the musician was himself about to let fall his instrument, and sink... |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | FH
was so popular overseas that she was strongly associated, in the mind of Wordsworth
at least, with a US audience. Her poems, particularly the Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England from Records... |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | |
Literary responses | Frances Ridley Havergal | The Reverend Charles Tennyson Turner
offered high praise for several of FRH
's poems and noted that Miss Havergal, Sappho
and Mrs Browning
constitute my present female trio. There may be others lying perdues to... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | H. D. | This analysis, or collection of aphorisms, treats the ideal of body-mind synthesis, and explores the springs of creation and imagination, and different forms that these take in men and women. The volume includes The Wise... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Germaine Greer | This book sets out to puncture what it regards as a bubble of uncritical admiration for poetry by women for the sake of the authors' gender. It decries the deodorized, depilated and submissive works of... |
death | Eva Gore-Booth | She and Esther Roper are buried in a single grave in a Hampstead churchyard: the grave is marked with a Celtic cross Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Donoghue, Emma. “’How could I fear and hold thee by the hand?’: The Poetry of Eva Gore-Booth”. Sex, Nation, and Dissent in Irish Writing, edited by Éibhear Walshe and Éibhear Walshe, St Martin’s Press, pp. 16-42. 36 |
Leisure and Society | Rumer Godden | Her literary standards of judgement were high. Among women poets she accorded major status only to Sappho
, Christina Rossetti
, Emily Dickinson
—not Elizabeth Barrett Browning
—and to the more recent Edith Sitwell
and Marianne Moore
. Godden, Rumer. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep. Macmillan. 218 and n |
Textual Production | Martha Fowke | It has recently been suggested among scholars that MF
is the hitherto unidentified author of another and larger group of poems in the Barbados Gazette. Bill Overton
thinks it possible, Phyllis Guskin
thinks it... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michael Field | The preface calls Sappho the one woman who has dared to speak unfalteringly of the fearful mastery of love. Field, Michael. Long Ago. G. Bell and Sons. Titles are numbers, given... |
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. |
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