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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.
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Caroline Norton | The Picture of Sappho brings the gender and scandal nexus together within a meditation on poetic vocation and expression. As the title suggests, the speaker of the lyric reflects on Sappho
as a culturally produced... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Matilda Betham | Catharine Macaulay
, she insists, was pleasing and delicate in her person, and a woman of great feeling and indisputable abilities, though the democratic spirit of her writings has made them fall into disrepute. Feminist Companion Archive. |
| 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 | 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, 1990. 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. |
| 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, 1999. 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, 1990. |
| Textual Production | Mary Bailey | She was mistaken in believing this to be a first: several translations had appeared, often together with the surviving poems of Sappho
and occasionally with other poets as well, as in the version by Thomas Stanley |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 | Natalie Clifford Barney | NCB
, under the pseudonym Tryphê, published Cinq petits dialogues grecs, the first of which celebrates Sappho
's love for women. Tryphe is a Greek word whose meanings include softness, luxuriousness, and wantonness. Crane, Gregory, editor. Perseus Digital Library. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Causse, Michèle. Berthe ou un demi-siècle auprès de l’Amazone. Tierce, 1980. 248 Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940. University of Texas Press, 1986. 284 |
| 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 | 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, Feb. 2007. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and Thomas McLean |
| 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... |
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