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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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Anne Bradstreet | His long, descriptive title begins: The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung up in America; or, Severall Poems, Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight, before going to enumerate the major poems... |
| Textual Production | Clara Reeve | Over the signature C. R., she asserted that women writing were a sign of the rapid progress of the present age towards the refinements of civilization. qtd. in The Lady’s Magazine. J. Wheble. 8 (1777): 538 |
| 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, 2010, pp. 259-86. 262 |
| 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, 1983. 294 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Ann Browne | In 1840 MAB
published in three of the Dublin University Magazine's monthly issues. Her Sketches from the Antique—Second Series (in September) centres on women in antiquity. The Victor Virgin describes girl athletes racing; although... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Ann Browne | Sappho
at the Loom again uses the ancient poet as a way of writing about the balance, for a woman, of poetry with more conventional female attributes: 'Tis well to contemplate thee thus: / For... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | The historical Sappho
had emerged by this date as a potentially lesbian or bisexual figure, for instance in the work of Swinburne
; Michael Field
's Long Ago was published this same year. Dawson's Sappho... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Naomi Mitchison | |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Moody | She has a sharp eye for gender issues, including those surrounding domestic work. The Housewife's Prayer is addressed to Economy, a name which might be loosely translated as balancing the budget, and ends with the... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Carol Rumens | Its tributes to earlier women poets are grounded in Portrait of the Poet as a Little Girl (a belated, oblique answer to James Joyce
), which concludes on the patrilineal prize / which she, disarmed... |
| 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Carson | For AC
, eros is a three point circuit between lover, beloved and that which comes between them. Carson, Anne. Eros The Bittersweet. Princeton University Press, 1986. 16 |
| 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 | Judith Sargent Murray | She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho
, the patriotic heroism... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Carson | The book opens with a sequence of poems, Stops, about love for parents, recognition of approaching death, the the frailty of trivial detail weighted with emotional implication: To my mother, / love / of... |
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