SOURCE: Meakin, H. L. “Sapho to Philaenis: Donne Writes Back: His Dialogue With Ovid and Sappho.” In John Donne's Articulations of the Feminine, pp. 109-38. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.
In the following excerpt, Meakin discusses Donne's poem about the lesbian poet Sappho as example of how Donne was able to transcend seventeenth-century conceptions of sex and gender.
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