Erica Jong

In the twentieth century Sappho continued full of potential for poets and prose-writers. Naomi Mitchison fictionalises her supposed school; Eavan Boland takes her as guide on an underworld journey (as Dante took Virgil); Jeanette Winterson

This book became an English best-seller and was soon translated into eight other languages. It won the Costa (formerly the Orange) award for biography and made its author, at the venerable age of 91, an...

This book brought an avalanche of invitations to read her work.AS was not surprised at what she called the uniformly poor reviews, having become inured to this kind of reception. Some, however...

AS accepted the label confessional poet, although many commentators made that a basis from which to denigrate her work. Erica Jong argued that this label downplays the element of achieved skill, wrongly suggesting that...

The volume was criticised more generally for its consistently negative images of men and masculinity. Helen Vendler found in the poems a deliberate refusal of the modulations of intelligence in favor of . ....

Other recipients of this award include Denise Levertov (1960), Adrienne Rich (1963), Erica Jong (1971), and Margaret Atwood (1974).