Victorian SapphoPrinceton University Press, 08.03.1999 - 279 Seiten What is Sappho, except a name? Although the Greek archaic lyrics attributed to Sappho of Lesbos survive only in fragments, she has been invoked for many centuries as the original woman poet, singing at the origins of a Western lyric tradition. Victorian Sappho traces the emergence of this idealized feminine figure through reconstructions of the Sapphic fragments in late-nineteenth-century England. Yopie Prins argues that the Victorian period is a critical turning point in the history of Sappho's reception; what we now call "Sappho" is in many ways an artifact of Victorian poetics. |
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... reader as well as a kindred spirit . I am deeply grate- ful to the members of my writing group in Ann Arbor , the Fellow Flam- ing Bitches , for their loyal friendship and fierce intelligence : Catherine Brown , Kali Israel , Elizabeth ...
... reader , they seem to speak . But their arrival is unpredictable , as I show in a detailed analysis of fragment 31 of Sappho , first in Greek and then in a series of English translations . Every attempt to recuperate Sapphic voice ...
... readers to identify Swinburne with Sappho , and he is still read as the most important Victo- rian incarnation of Sappho . Swinburne invokes her as the greatest lyric poet who ever lived , his personal precursor and the proper name for ...
... readers , the juxtaposition of English and Greek might nevertheless serve as a reminder of the difficulty of reading all poetry , even in English . As I define a Sapphic strain in Victorian poetry , I therefore want to in- sist more ...
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