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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Judith Cowper Madan | |
| Literary responses | Lady Caroline Lamb | When Glenarvon first appeared, said Lady Caroline, William Lamb
admired it so much that it was instrumental in bringing the separated couple back together. Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols. 2: 202 |
| Literary responses | Judith Cowper Madan | Roger Lonsdale
in 1990 followed Falconer Madan
in supposing that her child-bearing and the influence of John Wesley
and the Methodists
amounted to sufficient explanation for her ceasing to write. Valerie Rumbold
suggested in 1996... |
| Literary responses | Mary Whateley Darwall | Before the appearance of her first book, Mary Whateley was celebrated by a Walsall poet, Stephen Chatterton
, for excelling Sappho
's odes. During the same period, in 1861, the Gentleman's Magazine published an exaggerated... |
| Literary responses | Anna Seward | The Critical praised her lively glow of imagination, and bewitching harmony of numbers Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 53 (1782): 230 |
| Literary responses | Edna St Vincent Millay | William Marion Reedy
, who read this collection in proof, thought it splendid work—all shot through with brightness; the air of the open world in it too. qtd. in Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House, 2001. 186 |
| Literary responses | Mary Savage | The notice in the Critical Review reprinted MS
's prefatory essay on recent female improvements: Instead of the single Sappho
of antiquity, we can muster many names of equal, and some of superior value, in... |
| names | Anne Bradstreet |
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| Other Life Event | Alison Uttley | She had precognitive dreams, including one about Sappho
. |
| Performance of text | Maureen Duffy | MD
wrote a dramatic monologue to be spoken by Sappho
(whose poems she had just been writing about), which was performed in London in 2010. Duffy, Maureen. “My Life with Aphra Behn”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 19 , No. 2, 13 Feb. 2012. 244 |
| Performance of text | Natalie Clifford Barney | NCB
's Equivoque, a play about Sappho
, was privately performed in her garden. Causse, Michèle. Berthe ou un demi-siècle auprès de l’Amazone. Tierce, 1980. 249 |
| Author summary | Sarah Lewis | Sarah Anna Lewis
was a mid-nineteenth-century American poet who is today better known for her association with Edgar Allan Poe
than for her writings. She began her career with frequent periodical publications, then published four... |
| Author summary | Michael Field | As MF
, Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Cooper published twenty-seven tragedies, mostly verse dramas on historical or classical subjects. Only one of their plays was staged, and it received poor reviews. Their unique literary... |
| Publishing | Maureen Duffy | After this came Paper Wings, published in late 2014 in a limited edition of 100 copies in spiral binding. This resulted from an installation of the same title, shown by Enitharmon Press
in an... |
| Publishing | Michael Field | Printing of the book was limited to one hundred copies. (Robert Browning
received no. 2.) It was beautifully bound in vellum and printed in two ink colours: MF
's poems in black and Sappho |
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