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Longinus
Longinus , fl. 1st cent.? AD, Greek literary critic; writer of the famous treatise On the Sublime. Nothing is known of his life, and for a long time his work was attributed to Cassius Longinus. On the Sublime is one of the momuments of literary criticism. The work is the sole source for Sappho's... Read more |
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Alcaeus
Alcaeus , c.620-c.580 BC, Greek lyric poet of Lesbos. An aristocrat, he was often embroiled in political battles with the ruling tyrants. He wrote drinking songs, hymns, love songs, and political odes. He was, according to tradition, a close associate of Sappho . The Alcaic strophe (a four-line... Read more |
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Johann Heinrich von Dannecker
Johann Heinrich von Dannecker , 1758-1841, German sculptor. He studied with Pajou in Paris and with Canova in Rome. His art shows a revival of classical influence, as well as moderate naturalism. Among his statues are Sappho, Psyche, and Ariadne on a Panther. He made busts of many noted... Read more |
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epithalamium
epithalamium , song or poem written to celebrate a marriage. An elaborate form of pastoral , the epithalamium usually tells of the happenings of the wedding day. Nymphs, shepherds, and appropriate mythological figures are present to share the poet's joy. Epithalamiums were written in ancient times... Read more |
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Erica Jong
Erica Jong (Erica Mann Jong) , 1942-, American novelist and poet, b. New York City. She created a sensation with Fear of Flying (1973), a comic, picaresque novel of sex and psychiatry that challenged conventional views of women. Her other works include the poems in Half Lives (1973); the... Read more |
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Alcman
Alcman , fl. 620 BC, Greek lyric poet of Sparta. He was the earliest writer of Dorian choral poetry whose work has survived. Short choral fragments and a longer one (part of a parthenion or choir song for girls) are extant. His verse, simple, clear, and musical, was often sung at festivals. ... Read more |
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Jacob Mikhailovich Gordin
Jacob Mikhailovich Gordin , 1853-1909, American writer of Yiddish plays, b. Russia. He was for some years a teacher and a newspaper writer in St. Petersburg, Odessa, and elsewhere. In 1880 he founded the Bible Brotherhood, a reform movement of Judaism. After the movement was suppressed, he left... Read more |
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Percy MacKaye
MacKaye, Percy [Wallace] (1875–1956),son of Steele MacKaye, was born in New York City, and after graduation from Harvard (1897) and teaching school began to write poetry and plays. The Canterbury Pilgrims (1903) deals with an imaginary sentimental episode between Chaucer and the Prioress,... Read more |
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Sappho
Sappho , fl. early 6th cent. BC, greatest of the early Greek lyric poets (Plato calls her "the tenth Muse" ), b. Mytilene on Lesbos. Facts about her life are scant. She was an aristocrat, who wrote poetry for her circle of friends, mostly but not exclusively women. She may have had a daughter.... Read more |
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ancient Greek literature
ancient Greek literature the writings of the ancient Greeks. The Greek Isles are recognized as the birthplace of Western intellectual life. Early Writings The earliest extant European literary works are the Iliad and the Odyssey, both written in ancient Greek probably before 700 BC, and... Read more |
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Victorian Sappho.(Review)
Victorian Sappho. By YOPIE PRINS. Princeton, NJ...13.95 [pounds sterling]. Sappho has recently become a fruitful area...and finally the figure of the Victorian poetess. Victorian Sappho is ambitiously broad in concept... |
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Victorian Sappho
Victorian Sappho by Yopie Prins. In this elegant, dense, artfully-constructed study of Sappho as an artifact of Victorian poetics...uses her contribution to Victorian and Sappho studies to reveal much about our own ... |
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The Sappho History.(Book Review)
...most sustained debt is to Yopi Prins's Victorian Sappho (Princeton: Princeton University Press...importance of the lyric fragmentation of Sappho's remains to Victorian poetry. The Sappho History does on occasion cite ... |
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Evenings in Paris.("Wild Girls : Paris, Sappho, and Art: the Lives and Loves...
Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho, and Art: The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks...the gaslit world of our gay great-great-grandmothers, late-Victorian rebels who became the first Moderns and posed for the portraits Brooks... |
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Erotica: Women's Writing from Sappho to Margaret Atwood.
...has to wonder whether the proliferation and legitimation of pornography is a sign of liberation from the persistent claw of Victorian repression, or whether, as Foucault would have said, we are simply enforcing a regime of biopower, of power achieved by... |
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A bounded Field: situating Victorian poetry in the literary...
...development in the field of Victorian poetry studies over the past...expansions of the fragments of Sappho, one of which (in Greek...Both of these interests, in Sappho and in Renaissance painting...centuries. (5) In Victorian Sappho (1999), ... |
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Victorian poetry as Victorian studies.
...curious incongruity: while Victorian poetry was central to the life of the Victorians, it remains marginal to...Britain. We need to claim for Victorian poetry a vital, pivotal...engagement with larger debates. Victorian poetry scholarship deserves...Yopie ... |
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On cultural neoformalism, spasmodic poetry, and the Victorian ballad.
...selfhood. Yopie Prins in Victorian Sappho (Princeton, 1999) yokes...cultural phenomenon of the Victorian poetess. (2) In these...new discussion a host of Victorian poetic oddities that critics...precisely because many Victorians believed ... |
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"Syren Strains": Victorian women's devotional poetry and John Keble's The...
...unintelligible to most Victorian women, (2) and briefly...only one woman poet, Sappho. Whenever discussing...the legitimation of the Victorian woman poet." (4...work of pre-eminent Victorian devotional poet Christina... |
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Swinburne. (Guide to the Year's Work).(Algernon Charles Swinburne)
...presented by Swinburne and other Victorian poets. In these pages last...complex identification with Sappho finely illuminates "The Nightingale...with Yopie Prins's Victorian Sappho (1999), but anyone interested...of Swinburne in relation to ... |
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