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| Name: |
Sappho | | Birth Date: |
c. 625 B.C. | | Death Date: |
570 B.C. | | Place of Birth: |
Lesbos | | Nationality: |
Greek | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
poet |
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 Biography of Sappho
828 words, approx. 3 pages
 Sappho (ca. 625-570 BC), a Greek lyric poet, was the greatest female poet of antiquity. Her vivid, emotional manner of writing influenced poets through the ages, and her special quality of intimacy has great appeal to modern poetic tastes. The poetry... summary from source:
Biography of Sappho
2,315 words, approx. 8 pages
 The greatest importance of Sappho in literary history has been her contribution toward the definition of the lyric genre. While her early date and her gender guaranteed her a position of major significance, it was her brilliant creativity that made her... 
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 Sappho Quotes
542 words, approx. 2 pages
Sappho (Attic Greek Σαπφω, Aeolic Greek Ψαπφα, Sapphô) (born c. 630 BC - 612 BC ; died c. 570 BC - 581 BC ) Greek poet ; A prolific and much acclaimed writer, she is credited with either seven or nine long books of poetry, but over a...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Sappho Summary
27,036 words, approx. 90 pagesMany critics consider Sappho the greatest female poet of the classical world and the most accomplished of an influential group of lyric poets who were active in Greece between 650 B.C. and 450 B.C.—a period often designated the Lyric Age of... summary from source:
 Sappho Information
4,028 words, approx. 13 pages
Sappho (Attic Greek Σαπφώ [sapːʰɔː], Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω [psapːʰɔː]) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. In history and poetry texts, she is sometimes associated with the city of Mytilene on Lesbos (Carson...
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 Comparative Literature Victorian Sappho
04/01/2001: 1,721 words, approx. 6 pages VICTORIAN SAPPHO. By Yopie Prins. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. 278 p. This book can be characterized as a De Manian account of the reception of Sappho. Quoting one of De Man's essays on Wordsworth where he remarks that "death is a displaced... summary from source:
The Modern Language Review Victorian Sappho.(Review)
04/01/2001: 584 words, approx. 2 pages Victorian Sappho. By YOPIE PRINS. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1999. xiii + 279 pp. 13.95 [pounds sterling]. Sappho has recently become a fruitful area of enquiry in literary studies. Monographs by, for example, Joan DeJean, Page du Bois, Jane Snyder, and...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Jane McIntosh Snyder
15,557 words, approx. 52 pages
In the following excerpts, Snyder examines how Sappho's lyric poetry recontextualizes the patriarchal and heterosexual world of the Homeric epic, also surveying several of her lesser-known poetic fragments.
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Eileen Gregory
12,070 words, approx. 40 pages
In the following essay, Gregory reveals how H.D. evokes the erotic lyricism of Sappho and the elemental power and imagery of the sea in the poems of her Sea Garden.
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Critical Essay by André Lardinois
10,242 words, approx. 34 pages
In the following essay, Lardinois questions modern historical reconstructions of Sappho as either a school-mistress or a symposiast, claiming instead that the historical evidence is most consistent with her occupation as an “instructor of young women's choruses.”
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