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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 ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Adrienne Rich | First published in 1971 (Rich's collections often include writings issued previously), the essay When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision is described in 1988 by Elizabeth Meese
as still inform[ing] much of the best work... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Dickinson | Among our contemporary poets, Adrienne Rich
has offered this reading of ED
's life and works: Emily Dickinson—viewed by her bemused contemporary Thomas Higginson as partially cracked, by the twentieth century as fey or... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Natalie Clifford Barney | NCB
's treatment of Sappho
was influenced by Les chansons de Bilitis by French writer Pierre Louÿs
(1894), a fictional work which purported to be a translation (along with biography, bibliography, and scholarly notes) of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Mary Wroth | Interspersed in the body of Urania are fifty-nine poems and sonnets. As printed, the book concludes with three sonnet sequences comprising a further eighty-three sonnets and eighteen songs, in a freshly paginated section. These sequences... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Natalie Clifford Barney | Rewriting Ovid
, NCB
attributes Sappho
's death to her love for Timas, a young female disciple, instead of Phaon. Causse, Michèle. Berthe ou un demi-siècle auprès de l’Amazone. Tierce. 249 Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. No Man’s Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century. Yale University Press. 2: 226 Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940. University of Texas Press. 291 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Maureen Duffy | Living her afterlife on Mount Parnassus, Duffy's Sappho
is familiar with women poets who have written in English: her favourite is Aphra Behn
. Duffy, Maureen. “My Life with Aphra Behn”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 19 , No. 2. 244 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Barrell | The range of styles is wide: from sentiment to burlesque. Poems of sentiment include an epitaph on a woman who died of a broken heart. Others construct a narrative for Maria: she gently and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Lennox | The leading topics of these poems are love-relationships and women. The opening poem, A Pastoral, from the Song of Solomon, is erotic in tone. It ends: For Love's as strong as Death, and pow'rful... |
| Health | Dora Carrington | Carrington attempted to give herself a miscarriage by riding a horse violently, and when this did not work she became depressed to a nearly suicidal degree. Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray. 271-2 |
| Fictionalization | Violet Fane | In 1877 Fane's Sincere Friend Mallock, W. H. The New Republic. Scribner and Welford. prelims Mallock, W. H. Memoirs of Life and Literature. Chapman and Hall. 96 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Natalie Clifford Barney | At sixteen, NCB
fell in love with Eva Palmer
, a biscuit heiress whose family vacationed with hers in Bar Harbor, Maine. Eva introduced NCB
to Sappho
's poetry and instigated her lifelong appreciation for Greek culture. Chalon, Jean. Portrait of a Seductress: The World of Natalie Barney. Translator Barko, Carol, Crown. 11-12 Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940. University of Texas Press. 277 |
| Education | Tillie Olsen | At home the Lerner children learned Yiddish songs and made up silly plays. Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press. 27 |
| Education | Alison Uttley | At Manchester, AU
lived in the women's residence, Ashburne House. Formative teachers in her life included Hilda Oakeley Oakeley, a Somerville College graduate and a close friend of Eleanor Rathbone
, had a great impact... |
| Education | Anne Carson | AC
successfully defended her PhD dissertation on the poetry of Sappho
. Titled Odi et Amo Ergo Sum (I hate and love, therefore I am), it eventually became first book project, Eros the... |
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