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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 descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Jeanette Winterson | The novel's three apparently unconnected characters are breast surgeon Handel (erstwhile boy chorister, castrato, and Catholic priest; not the same as yet reminiscent of George Frederick Handel
), Picasso (a young woman whose family opposes... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | EOB
writes in terms of a women's tradition: for instance, she praises Barbauld
for praising Elizabeth Rowe
. She makes confident judgements and attributions (she is sure that Lady Pakington
is the real author of... |
| Textual Features | Anne Wharton | |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Elstob | EE
's first publication consists of a fairly short essay with some poems to fill out the volume. She celebrates Scudéry as a Sappho
(one of Scudéry's strong female characters is Sapho) and as... |
| Textual Features | Rosamund Marriott Watson | Her introduction demonstrates a good knowledge of ancient Greek poetry and its publication history. In addition to selections by Plato
and Theocritus
, the book includes single poems by Sappho
and Erinna
. Watson, Rosamund Marriott, editor. Selections from the Greek Anthology. W. Scott, 1901. xi-xii |
| Textual Features | Mary Robinson | MR
's preface quotes that of Charlotte Smith
to her Elegiac Sonnets. Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, 2000, pp. 19-64. 45 |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Fenton | Fenton sets out to paint a a familiar picture of the everyday occurrences, manners, and habits of life of persons undistinguished either by wealth or fame Fenton, Elizabeth. The Journal of Mrs. Fenton. Editor Lawrence, Sir Henry, Edward Arnold, 1901. 1-2 |
| Textual Features | Anna Jane Vardill | AJV
translates from Sappho
, Anacreon
, Alcæus
, Theocritus
, Horace
, and more recent poets: Petrarch
and Camoens
. She includes several charity poems: the one already published in aid of the Refuge for the Destitute |
| Textual Features | Marie Belloc Lowndes | In her reviewing capacity she was able to comment on several texts central to the European tradition of women's writing. She called Marie de Lafayette
's La Princesse de Cleves (re-issued as part of an... |
| Textual Features | Angela Brazil | Girls in these books sew, roll bandages, dig for victory, arrange care for the children of munitions workers, and raise money in support of the war effort. For the School Colours is also notable for... |
| Textual Features | Judith Cowper Madan | |
| 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 | 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 | 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... |
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