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Books on: sappho poetry

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Sappho and Her Influence

Book by David M. Robinson; Marshall Jones Company, 1924

Subjects:

Literature, Comparative--Greek And Modern, Literature, Comparative--Modern And Greek, Sappho

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...she was living when Sappho began to write poetry because of the reference...painter Apelles. 58 Sapphos school of poetry in modern times has...in his Pastoral Poetry says, "In thy sweet...Barbauld, survives even Sapphos flame." Plato calls...
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Poems and Fragments

Book by Stanley Lombardo, Susan Warden, Sappho; Hackett, 2002

Subjects:

Lesbos Island (Greece)--Poetry, Sappho--Translations Into English, Women--Greece--Poetry

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...number of surviving lines of Sapphos poetry, they represent a tiny fraction...submission. Many have asserted that Sapphos poetry describes a community far removed...I like Page duBoiss notion of Sapphos poetry as a Lacanian body in pieces...
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Greek Lyric Poetry from Alcman to Simonides

Book by C. M. Bowra; Clarendon Press, 1936

Subjects:

Greek Poetry--History And Criticism, Poets, Greek

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...The matter of his poetry is not fundamentally...that of Alcaeus or Sappho or Anacreon. All...successors were not Sappho and Alcaeus but Semonides...great contribution to poetry, but he preferred...from the heart as Sappho did, although he...love in some of his poetry. It looks as if he...
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Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace

Book by Tony Woodman, Denis Feeney; Cambridge University Press, 2002

Subjects:

Epistolary Poetry, Latin--History And Criticism, Horace--Criticism And Interpretation, Influence (Literary, Artistic, Etc.)--History--To 500, Laudatory Poetry, Latin--History And Criticism, Rome--In Literature, Verse Satire, Latin--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This collection of freshly commissioned essays covers the entire range of the works of an exceptionally versatile and innovative poet. The essays introduce readers to a variety of critical approaches to Horace and to Latin poetry, as well as a number of different contexts--political, philosophical ...
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This collection of freshly commissioned essays covers the entire range of the works of an exceptionally versatile and innovative poet. The essays introduce readers to a variety of critical approaches to Horace and to Latin poetry, as well as a number of different contexts--political, philosophical, historical. The collection sheds light not only on Horace but on Augustan poetry in general.
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The Greek View of Poetry

Book by E. E. Sikes; Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1931

Subjects:

Criticism--History, Greek Literature--History And Criticism, Greek Poetry--History And Criticism, Poetry--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...war-songs of Alcaeus, the love-poetry of Sappho, or the gnomic wisdom of Theognis...The passage is both a praise of poetry, which can so beguile the hearer...other lyrical poets except perhaps Sappho Pindar is the apostle of sweetness...

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Journal Articles on: sappho poetry

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The Sappho History

Journal article by Linda H. Peterson; CLIO, Vol. 34, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Sappho History (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Philosophy, History, Literature, Entire Library

...readers familiar with Sapphos name and interested in lyric poetry but not deeply immersed...nineteenth-century British womens poetry that would deny that Sappho "peculiarly belonged...critical readings of the Sappho-inspired poetry that Reynolds presents...
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Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics 1550-1714 & Early Modern Women's Letter Writing, 1450-1700 & Women Writing 1550-1750

Journal article by Elaine V. Beilin; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 56, 2003

Subjects:

Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Early Modern Women's Letter Writing, 1450-1700 (Book), Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714 (Book), Women Writing: 1550-1750 (Book)

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...beginning of her illuminating study, Sappho in Early Modern England: Female...is Katherine Philips, whose poetry of female friendship has long...respectability for homoerotic poetry emanates a tradition of what...more socially transgressive Sappho becomes. Tracing Philips influence...
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General Materials

Journal article by David G. Riede; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 39, 2001

Subjects:

Books--Evaluation, Feminist literature--History, Literature--History, Poetry--19th century, Romanticism--Analysis, Women authors--Literature, Women poets--Appreciation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...studies of Victorian poetry and feminist literary...erudite Victorian Sappho, a reception study...engendering lyric poetry as the embodiment...embodiment, via Longinus Sappho, of the sublime...usual idea of lyric poetry, in Mills terms...personification of lyric as a Sappho who is not a solitary...
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A Bounded Field: Situating Victorian Poetry in the Literary Landscape

Journal article by Erik Gray; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 41, 2003

Subjects:

British poetry--Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism and interpretation, Field, Michael--Criticism and interpretation, Victorian period literature, 1832-1901--Criticism and interpretation, Women poets--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...these interests, in Sappho and in Renaissance...contexts in which her poetry is discussed. Several...analysis of Fields poetry in the context of...5) In Victorian Sappho (1999), Yopie Prins...criticism of Fields poetry will concentrate...Prinss Victorian Sappho has already begun...
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Creating from Nothing: Swinburne and Baudelaire in "Ave Atque Vale"

Journal article by Thomas J. Brennan; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 44, 2006

Subjects:

Ave atque Vale (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Baudelaire, Charles--Works, Poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Swinburne, Algernon Charles--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...substance of his poetry. (1...with the Greek poet Sappho enables him to articulate...in order to recall Sappho herself as the long-lost origin of lyric poetry." (4) In a sense...Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Oxford: Oxford Univ...Prins, Victorian Sappho (Princeton: Princeton...

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Magazine Articles on: sappho poetry

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Notes from Antiquity: Watching a Play by Euripedes or Reading Poetry by Sappho Is Perhaps as Incomplete an Experience Today as Watching a "Play" by Wagner or Reading "Poetry" by Stephen Sondheim Would Be

Magazine article by Toby Lester; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 290, November 2002

Subjects:

Ancient Greek civilization, Civilization, Greek, Greek literature--Research, Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios--Research

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Antiquity: Watching a Play by Euripedes or Reading Poetry by Sappho Is Perhaps as Incomplete an Experience Today as Watching...implication: watching a play by Euripides or reading poetry by Sappho is perhaps as incomplete an experience today as watching...
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Notes from Antiquity: Watching a Play by Euripedes or Reading Poetry by Sappho Is Perhaps as Incomplete an Experience as Watching a "Play" by Wagner or Reading "Poetry" U Stephen Sondheim Would Be

Magazine article by Toby Lester; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 290, November 2002

Subjects:

Classical music, Greek history (Ancient), Music

Collections: Entire Library

...Antiquity: Watching a Play by Euripedes or Reading Poetry by Sappho Is Perhaps as Incomplete an Experience as Watching...implication: watching a play by Euripides or reading poetry by Sappho is perhaps as incomplete an experience today as watching...
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Revealing Rhymes: Once Poets Veiled Their Feelings in Code; Now Their Poetry Speaks Volumes about Their Lives

Magazine article by John Weir; The Advocate, April 28, 1998

Subjects:

Gay and lesbian studies--Criticism and interpretation, Gay literature--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...shame prevents me," Sappho wrote in the sixth...Anactoria. Writing poetry was her way to put...age. Where "gay" poetry was a sideline a...definitely changed since Sappho. For a long time...You want gay, heres Sapphos Boat." Since the...have been hauling poetry out of the hands...
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The Three Voices of Contemporary Poetry

Magazine article by Charles Martin; New Criterion, Vol. 22, April 2004

Subjects:

Creeley, Robert--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Rich, Adrienne--Criticism and interpretation, Wilbur, Richard--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Entire Library

...young Ezra Pound had presented a translation of a few scraps by Sappho ("Spring ... Too long ... Gongula.") as a poem in itself, entitled "Papyrus." When I began reading contemporary poetry in the 1960s, the slender, enigmatic poems of Robert Creeley...
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Pocketful of Poetry

Magazine article by Matt Link; The Advocate, July 3, 2001

Subjects:

Love Speaks Its Name (Book)--Authorship, McClatchy, J.D.--Interviews, Poets--Interviews

Collections: Entire Library

...editor of several anthologies. His latest poetry anthology, Love Speaks Its Name, features Sappho, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Whitman, Williams...to The Advocate about what constitutes "gay poetry." How did you choose which classic poets...

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Newspaper Articles on: sappho poetry

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The Lesbians Take over the Literary Prizes

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 23, 2006

Subjects:

Lesbians, Literary prizes, Poetry

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Short Stories and author of The Sappho History) went overboard. "I...sold impressively for a single poetry collection since its publication...commonly found in pop than in poetry these days. Several poems celebrate...Liverpool school. But if this is poetry lite, delivering all it has...
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2 American Poets; the Best of Amy Lowell and William Carlos Williams Collected and Explained in New Library of America Editions

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 14, 2004

Subjects:

Lowell, Amy, Pound, Ezra, Williams, William Carlos

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...small group of women poets. In "The Sisters", she pays homage to Sappho, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson: "Taking us by and large, were a queer lot/ We women who write poetry. And when you think/ How few of us thereve been, its queerer...
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Radical Movement for a Stiff City

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 15, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...detective Nancy Drew and the ancient poet Sappho in "Slippery Sleuth Ancient Muse," also...of Butoh in "Remains of Shadow," using poetry, music and video for an examination of...AVAdance/ Spirit Motion is inspired by the poetry of Marshall Ball, at various times at...
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Biography Melds Durrell and His Work

Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, June 29, 1997

Subjects:

Durrell, Lawrence

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...all with the domestic mood of English poetry, nor with the crabbed realism of fiction...of an incestuous relationship with Sappho, his daughter from his second marriage, to Eve Cohen (model for Justine). Sappho, fearing herself lesbian, hanged herself...
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Victorian Titans Return

Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, February 16, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the legends of King Arthur and Dante Alighieris metaphysical poetry. An intensity of emotion, apparently not achieved in the artists...gallery, the shows grand finale. The voluptuous figures of Sappho and Persephone are wrapped in revealing, gauzelike gowns. Frederick...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: sappho poetry

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Sappho

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

SAPPHO saf o, fl. early 6th cent. b.c., greatest of the early...about her life are scant. She was an aristocrat, who wrote poetry for her circle of friends, mostly but not exclusively women...home, Lesbos. The ancients had seven or nine books of her poetry (the first book originally consisted of 330 Sapphic stanzas...
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Lyric

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...sonnet, ode, song, or elegy. In early Greek poetry a distinction was made between the choral...individual. The monody was developed by Sappho and Alcaeus in the 6th cent. b.c., the...In the Renaissance and later, lyric poetry achieved its most finished form in the...
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Alcman

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...poet of Sparta. He was the earliest writer of Dorian choral poetry whose work has survived. Short choral fragments and a longer...See his Partheneion (ed. by D. L. Page, 1951); Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman (tr. by G. Davenport, 1980...
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Greek Music

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Greek Music The music of ancient Greece was inseparable from poetry and dancing. It was entirely monodic, there being no harmony...Lesbos (7th cent. b.c.). The lyric art of Archilochus , Sappho , and Anacreon was also musical in nature. In the 6th cent...
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Greek Literature, Ancient

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...poems are the lyrics of Alcaeus , Sappho and Anacreon . The Dorian lyric for...and taught. New genres such as bucolic poetry emerged during the Hellenistic period...Literature (1960); C. M. Bowra, Greek Lyric Poetry from Alcman to Simonides (rev. ed. 1961...

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