| 单词 | Sappho |
| 例句 | Mute, carrying his pitiful chalkboard around, lost in his restoration of Sappho, Lefty had begun to seem old to his son. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I think I’m beginning to look down on all poets except Sappho. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Persephone was the radiant maiden of the spring and the summertime, whose light step upon the dry, brown hillside was enough to make it fresh and blooming, as Sappho writes, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Likewise, my grandfather preferred to spend his mornings working on a modern Greek translation of the “restored” poems of Sappho. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But passion, as writers from Sappho to Tolstoy have reminded us, is always as much about its own fiery existence as its object. Theater Review: ‘Bridges of Madison County’ Brings Iowa to Broadway 2014-02-21T03:00:02Z McCarthy, an assistant professor at Harvard, draws on a broad array of cultural and historical influences — from Kara Walker to Nas to Sappho — in these essays, which he began writing in 2014. 16 New Books to Watch For in March 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Now Ms. Halo looked to random list generators, Anne Carson’s translations of Sappho and the work of the Brazilian concrete poet Haroldo de Campos to break up linearity. Laurel Halo Shakes Up Her Sound After Partnering With a Humanoid Pop Star 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Born in the seventh century BC, the Greek poet Sappho is known for her playful, erotic love poetry, which exists today only in fragments. Forget the Jane Austen romantic comedy: These authors would make way better rom-coms 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z “It’s like the spirit of the world, or Sappho, being bound up and then released,” she said. Ariadne Greif’s Searing Moment in Opera Cabal’s ‘Atthis’ 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Both women have been cited as inspirations for the character, with Elizabeth believed to have contributed her famous phrase “Suffering Sappho!” and Olive her looks. Will Wonder Woman be the movies' first major gay superhero? 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z In its announcement, the Nobel Prize committee compared the singer-songwriter to the ancient Greek poets, Homer and Sappho, even though he probably more closely identified with the 1960s bluegrass poets, Homer and Jethro. Bob Dylan’s Year of Living Laureatishly 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Sappho and Phaon is generally thought to be her major work. Poem of the week: Sappho and Phaon by Mary Robinson 2010-04-12T09:52:00Z Like some of his favorite writers — like Sappho, whom we know only from ancient fragments, or the Japanese poets who crafted 17-syllable haikus — Salinger was an author whose large reputation pivots on very little. 2010-01-28T21:05:00Z A fresco painting from Pompeii, understood to depict Sappho holding a stylus. The real thing 2010-08-10T08:08:00Z They are spare, resonant, sometimes drawing upon or alluding to the writers and works of literature that have sustained Swett: Robert Frost, Sappho, “King Lear.” The Books We Loved in 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z These poems resurrect an eclectic cast of characters, from Sappho to James Baldwin, to reflect on the poet’s vital yet unanswerable question: “What disaster will I deliver to my daughter?” Moving From Elegy to Ecstasy, a Poet Pushes Against the Canon 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z In 2001, one of those pieces was the final aria for Sappho. Lawrence Durrell and Peggy Glanville-Hicks: a song for Sappho 2012-08-22T18:31:01Z There’s more passionate potential in what look like unproduced scripts shown on a shelf: “Stars and Swastika,” and “Burning Sappho.” ‘A Fuller Life’ Tells the Story of Samuel Fuller 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z “Atthis” is based on text fragments by Sappho and traces the passionate ups and downs in the relationship between that Greek poet and her favorite student. Ariadne Greif’s Searing Moment in Opera Cabal’s ‘Atthis’ 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z But no one knows where Sappho was going, since the final lines of the poem are lost. Ingeborg Bachmann’s “Malina” Is the Truest Portrait of Female Consciousness Since Sappho 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z He drilled and sawed old floorboards, doors and wine crates for his home decorations and added murals of celebrated women, including Pocahontas, Sappho, Cleopatra and Bessie Smith. Antiques: Antiques - Khadambi Asalache’s London House Restored 2012-05-31T21:21:28Z First up: an appetizer of oysters drizzled with cumin, lovage, and pepper, from the days of Sappho, the poet of ancient Greece immortalized for her lines celebrating love and desire between women. An Actual Dinner Party Inspired by Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party” 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Anne Carson and Guy Davenport are two of my favorite writers, and both have translated Sappho: Whose version belongs on my shelves? Perspective | In turbulent times, culling my book collection gave me the illusion of control. Then the dilemmas began multiplying. 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Mendelsohn, a classicist by training, may be criticism’s answer to Michael Jordan; highbrow, lowbrow, antiquity, modernity, Sappho, “Suits” — he can do all the moves, as these essays, sparkling with insight and erudition, show. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Last October, when Dylan broke his Nobel silence in an interview with The Guardian, he offhandedly rendered a poem that would do Homer and Sappho — or Jethro — proud: Bob Dylan’s Year of Living Laureatishly 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Unable to complete her dissertation on Sappho and dazed after a messy breakup, Lucy agrees to dog-sit for her sister who lives near the beach, hoping the brackish Pacific breeze might enliven her spirits. In ‘The Pisces,’ a Woman and a Merman Fall in Love. Aquatic Erotica Ensues. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z But maybe Sappho's reputation has been helped by what we no longer have. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z The Sappho scraps deliver just one of many gee-whiz moments in the exhibition, which runs through Sept. 14. ‘Marks of Genius,’ Works From the Bodleian, at the Morgan 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z That is the subject of poetry from the most ancient times, from Sappho and Homer to the present. Erica Jong is back — as fearless as ever 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z A fragment of ancient papyrus given to an expert at Oxford University contains two previously unknown works by Greek poet Sappho, according to his findings. 'Two new poems' by Sappho recovered 2014-01-30T11:22:34Z Doyen of dactyls ... detail from a Pompeii fresco of Sappho holding a stylus. Poster poems: Sapphics 2010-07-02T09:32:00Z In the audio trail, Hambling is particularly struck that Sappho's Greek island home valued the poet enough to put her on its official coinage. British Museum explores historic secrets of gay love 2013-06-20T18:08:56Z So, how about a bit of elusiveness and sass: “Identical sisters of Sappho, actually.” I Have to Ask: Do You Own a Gun? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Back on the beach, Mr. Cotner read a fragment by the ancient Greek poet Sappho about a sleepless night alone, prompting reflections on romances gone bad. ‘Island Night,’ a Walk Across Fire Island 2012-09-06T22:22:25Z Carson’s first book, “Eros the Bittersweet” — a study of Sappho’s poetry — must be one of the most exciting works of criticism ever written. Perspective | Why the literature of antiquity still matters 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Mazza began to look into the Green Collection when researching fragments of a recently discovered papyrus by the ancient Greek poet Sappho: Museum of the Bible is busted: Inside the Hobby Lobby owners’ dodgy artifact practices 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z Her examples include doughnut holes, the Nixon tapes, Sappho. ‘Fragments’ Review: Guest Lectures from a Famed Professor 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z "So two Sapphos might be worth a bag of peas?" she ponders. British Museum explores historic secrets of gay love 2013-06-20T18:08:56Z At its most poetic moments, “Credo in Us” evokes the layered, splintered feel of Sappho verse fragments whirring through time and space. Dance Review: Molissa Fenley and Dancers at Judson Memorial Church - Review 2012-01-10T23:37:41Z Or think, rather differently, of the archaic Greek poetess Sappho. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z This month, the challenge is to write a poem in Sapphics – the form favoured, unsurprisingly enough, by Sappho. Poster poems: Sapphics 2010-07-02T09:32:00Z Among them: an original Magna Carta, a first edition Pride And Prejudice, Mary Shelley’s handwritten manuscript for Frankenstein, and fragments of an ancient papyrus manuscript possibly in the hand of Sappho. Conceptual, Sensual, Degenerate: Your Summer Art Choices 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Among them are Magna Carta, a Shakespeare First Folio, and scraps of poetry by Sappho. Five Things to Do This Weekend 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z The library, for instance, has likenesses of Marcus Aurelius, Alexander the Great and Sappho, while such Renaissance men as Galileo and Leon Battista Alberti keep company on the terrace. Brunello Cucinelli Keeps Chickens, and Many Books, at His 17th-Century Italian Villa 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Indeed, the Swedish Academy secretary, Sara Danius, placed his work in a long tradition that stretches back to Homer and Sappho. Does a musician have any right to win the Nobel Prize in literature? 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Though her lovesick Sappho rails at the futility of "reason" and "philosophy", elsewhere, Robinson argues eloquently for women's rationality and right to education. Poem of the week: Sappho and Phaon by Mary Robinson 2010-04-12T09:52:00Z Nearby, two small gold coins portray Sappho, Greek poetess and resident of the island of Lesbos. LGBT people existed long before 1967 – as the British Museum reveals 2013-06-20T10:48:08Z His essay on Sappho draws on recently discovered fragments of her work, which reveal a poet who might not conform to current expectations. A Critic Considers the ‘Ecstasy and Terror’ of Today With the Help of a Few Ancients 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z In an to be published later this year, Dr Obbink declares that the pieces - written on papyrus from the third century AD - are "indubitably" Sappho works. 'Two new poems' by Sappho recovered 2014-01-30T11:22:34Z Recalling the episode in further detail, a krater attributed to the Sappho Painter shows a grimacing Odysseus making his way to safety while strapped to the underbelly of a sheep. Art Review: Those Greek Heroes, Sometimes Behaving Badly 2010-10-21T20:45:00Z “Under my skin gruesome fire smolders,” she sang in a German translation of verses by Sappho. ‘Atthis,’ a Searing Monodrama by Opera Cabal and ACME 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z “Suffering Sappho!” as Wonder Woman liked to say. Wonder Woman’s Unwinnable War 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Her narrator Patroclus, she has said, sees the world "more like Sappho and Catullus than Homer"; he is a lover, not a fighter, swept up in the war because he is inseparable from Achilles. Madeline Miller's faithful approach to Homer was key to her Orange prize win 2012-06-01T08:44:31Z The Swedish Academy, however, said it wasn't opening the prize to a new genre, noting that poetry has often been put to music, including the works of ancient Greek writers like Homer and Sappho. Times a-changin': Nobel jury says lyrics can be literature 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z To read Mendelsohn is to gain a synoptic view of a subject, whether it’s the novels of Ingmar Bergman, “the Sappho wars” or the unexpected relationship between robots and Homer. Review | Daniel Mendelsohn’s ‘Ecstasy and Terror’ is a master class in criticism 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Ms. Jong has since published three memoirs, five more volumes of poetry and eight other novels, including historical fiction and a work about Sappho, but nothing has matched the popularity of “Fear of Flying.” Erica Jong’s ‘Fear of Dying’ Defies the Sunset of Sex 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Koyel Ghosh, who uses "they" and "them" as personal pronouns, is the managing trustee of Sappho for Equality, the first Lesbian-Bisexual-Transmasculine people rights collective in eastern India that started two decades ago. India LGBTQ+ couples: 'My parents were ready to kill me for their honour' 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Throughout, Schwartz pauses occasionally to meditate on the few extant fragments of Sappho’s poetry, texts that give voice to her characters’ desires while also opening them to their shared histories. Review | A brilliant novel about the dreams and desires of queer women 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z The middle of “Sappho” goes soggy; the charm of its little eddies wears thin. A novelist makes a beautiful hash out of feminist histories. But something's missing 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Single names — “Apollo,” “Venus,” “Sappho,” “Catullus” — evoke entire mythologies, whole bodies of literature. Review | I’ve been waiting half my life for this show. It’s magnificent. 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z It’s a question that plagued Shakespeare, Hallmark, Sappho and Taylor Swift, and these days it has even reached the workplace with surprising urgency: How do you show someone you care? Why Your Boss Wants to Know Your Love Language 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z In her first novel, “The Pisces,” a disaffected Sappho scholar named Lucy has a love affair with Theo, a merman. Melissa Broder isn't trying to be provocative. It's just who she is 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Sappho is an apt avatar for Schwartz’s project: The totalizing excess of queer art can overwhelm you with laughter or longing, blotting out the painful experiences it sometimes describes. Review | A brilliant novel about the dreams and desires of queer women 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z “The first thing we did,” the novel begins, “was change our names. We were going to be Sappho.” A novelist makes a beautiful hash out of feminist histories. But something's missing 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z “Entering Sappho” juxtaposes the legacy of the classical poet Sappho with the history of the abandoned town on the Pacific Coast Highway that bears her name. Looking for the perfect gift for the bookworm in your life? Seattle’s indie booksellers suggest these 5 titles 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Sarah Dowling lived in Seattle for six years, and in this speculative retelling of the history of real-life Sappho, Washington, the Pacific Northwest atmosphere is palpable. Get ready for Halloween and embrace autumn with this diverse group of 6 spooky, odd and just-plain-weird tales 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z As she posed ArtActivistBarbie in the Manchester Art Gallery in front of Charles Mengin’s Sappho – which portrays a topless young woman with a sheer drape covering her bottom half – two men approached her. 'That's not art it's Victorian porn!' – how one small Barbie doll took on the art world 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Sappho’s poetry, what’s left of it, teaches us that we have only ever lived or loved in pieces and parts. Review | A brilliant novel about the dreams and desires of queer women 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z If women’s lib is commonly thought to have progressed in successive wavelets over the better part of a century, “After Sappho” wants to rewrite that linear story into a swirl — not waves but eddies. A novelist makes a beautiful hash out of feminist histories. But something's missing 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Obbink also reported that at some point some 20 smaller fragments of the Sappho manuscript had been “deemed insignificant” by the anonymous owner, and sold off to the Greens. A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z But Obbink is hoping the scrolls might even contain lost works, such as poems by Sappho or the treatise Mark Antony wrote on his own drunkenness. Ancient scrolls charred by Vesuvius could be read once again 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Fragment 31 is one of the longest extant pieces of Sappho’s work, preserved because it was excerpted in “On the Sublime,” a work of literary criticism from the first century. Losing Religion and Finding Ecstasy in Houston 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Much of what matters most in “After Sappho” resides in the interplay of glances, the drama of seeing and being seen. Review | A brilliant novel about the dreams and desires of queer women 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Together they care for goldfish, an injured bird, and a cat named Sappho. Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z “A Sappho poem,” as the Telegraph’s headline put it, “is more exciting than a new David Bowie album”. A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Instead of walking around or standing at the lectern, as I typically do, I sat as I tried to teach students how to read the poetry of Sappho. Opinion | Professors like me can’t stay silent about this extremist moment on campuses 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Carson cites Sappho’s Fragment 31, in which the poet looks at a woman who is sitting next to a man, laughing with him. Losing Religion and Finding Ecstasy in Houston 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z “After Sappho” accomplishes what only the most generous art can: It makes a more perfect world out of the imperfections of our own. Review | A brilliant novel about the dreams and desires of queer women 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z At times, Lepore broadly hints, as when she points out that Elizabeth was a lifelong fan of Sappho’s poetry. The crucial thing the new Wonder Woman movie gets right 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z At first, in January 2014, he revealed only that the Sappho papyrus was owned by an anonymous private collector in London. A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z “If you look back, far back, you discover Homer and Sappho, and they wrote poetic texts that were meant to be listened to,” she said. The 2017 Nobel prize in literature – live 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Sappho describes her feelings as she watches the woman. Losing Religion and Finding Ecstasy in Houston 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z “After Sappho” is fragmentary in part because it mostly eschews the sections of its protagonists’ lives in which they were denied agency, whether because of their gender or their sexual orientation. Review | A brilliant novel about the dreams and desires of queer women 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z But whether Mr. Dylan is a poet — yes, he is being compared right now to Sappho, Homer, the great bards who sang — has never been an interesting question. Bob Dylan, Master of Change 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z This “industrial cartonnage”, with the Sappho supposedly hidden within it, had been purchased by auction at Christie’s in 2011, as part of a mixed lot of papyrus. A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z “They were meant to be performed. It’s the same way with Bob Dylan. But we still read Homer and Sappho. He can be read and should be read.” The 2017 Nobel prize in literature – live 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Plus, a biography of Sappho, one of the first female poets. Your Wednesday Briefing: Antonin Scalia, Pope Francis, South China Sea 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z To read “After Sappho” is to be blissfully adrift in a sea of love that could be contained in a single tear. Review | A brilliant novel about the dreams and desires of queer women 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z “Greener than grass / I am and dead — or almost / I seem to me,” Sappho sings as she watches them, feverishly in love with the very idea of loving. Heartbroken? Here’s a reading list to wallow in this Valentine’s Day. 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Nor did Christie’s possess relevant images of its auction lot of 2011 – the mixed lot of papyrus containing the piece of industrial cartonnage in which the Sappho fragment was supposedly concealed. A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z “It’s very pop,” said Donovan, who noted that ancient bards sang their verse and that Sappho probably played a small harp. Folk-rocker Donovan found inspiration in ancient Greece — for art 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Or perhaps one of the nine volumes of verse written by Sappho, the Greek poet; only one complete poem remains. The Quest to Unlock an Ancient Library 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Gioia’s book runs from Sappho’s lyrics on Lesbos to hip-hop in the South Bronx. Why Love Lyrics Last 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Almost without exception, Sappho’s writing comes to us in fragments. Heartbroken? Here’s a reading list to wallow in this Valentine’s Day. 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z It advertises the Sappho fragment for sale by private treaty. A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The pictures are named for Sappho, the 7th-century-B.C. poet whose identity also is largely blank. Folk-rocker Donovan found inspiration in ancient Greece — for art 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Sappho II moved to the center of the bai and pushed smaller elephants away from water holes that he wanted for himself. The Elephant Watcher 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z “As far as I knew, there was only me and a woman called Sappho,” the critic Judith Butler once remarked. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Examining the markings, Mr. Obbink determined they were lines from two previously unknown poems by Sappho, the ancient Greek poem. Op-Ed Contributor: Papyrus, Provenance and Looting 2014-03-02T23:29:19Z Furthermore, because of the physical condition and measurements of the brown papyrus mass in the photograph, he thinks it unlikely that the Sappho manuscript could have emerged from within it, as claimed. A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z It’s a morsel, and all that survives, of a Sappho poem. Folk-rocker Donovan found inspiration in ancient Greece — for art 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Lost poems by Sappho, the 100-plus lost plays of Sophocles, the lost dialogues of Aristotle? Unlocking the scrolls of Herculaneum 2013-12-20T01:06:52Z Market forces were also at work: as the centuries passed, fewer readers—and fewer scribes—understood Aeolic, the dialect in which Sappho composed, and so demand for new copies diminished. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z It is often forgotten that the writings at the root of Western literature - the epics of Homer, the love-poems of Sappho, the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides - were all, originally, music. How did ancient Greek music really sound? 2013-10-22T23:41:13Z The most obvious reason for staging an origin-story for the Sappho manuscript like this would be to conceal the fact that the papyrus had been illegally imported, excavated or traded. A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z "In the history of profound absences – the gaps in Sappho's fragments, Christ's tomb, the black panels of Rothko's chapel – this is among the most beautiful," gasps Sullivan. Blood Horses by John Jeremiah Sullivan – review 2013-03-21T10:01:01Z The book includes a Foreword by the well-known Sappho scholar and translator Willis Barnstone. Sappho's Journal 2012-04-19T02:00:26.460Z An anecdote from a later classical author about the Athenian legislator Solon, a contemporary of Sappho’s and one of the Seven Sages of Greece, is typical: How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z His compeers in the same divine idiocy are such immortals as Mark Antony, Marie Stuart, Francis I., almost the whole Bourbon dynasty, Sappho, Cleopatra, Solomon, and a sheaf of other shimmeringly splendid sinners. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z And yet there is video footage of Scott Carroll brandishing 26 small fragments of the Sappho, those that ended up belonging to the Greens, a week earlier, on 7 February 2012. A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The quick imagination and the social instincts of the Ionian Greeks, the aptness for speech and song native to the land of Homer and Sappho, were gifts not to be repressed but sanctified. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z A major writer, and scholar, presents a collection of lovely short stories of ancient Greece; the title story deals with Sappho and her group of girl lovers. Checklist A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, in English or available in English translation, with supplements of related material, for the use of collectors, students and librarians. 2012-03-19T02:00:24.597Z But some of these seemingly precious facts merely show that the encyclopedia—which, as old as it is, was compiled fifteen centuries after Sappho lived—could be prone to comic misunderstandings. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z After a pause, in which he felt Clarissa's angry eyes on his face, he said: "I am going to marry the little Sappho." The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z At present, however, the origins of the Sappho fragment remain shrouded in mystery. A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z At the period in question an Aeolic literature, the lyrics of Sappho and Alcaeus, were in existence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z OUT of the dust of Egypt comes the voice of Sappho, as clear and sweet as when she sang in Lesbos by the sea, 600 years before the birth of Christ. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z The last is a particularly loaded issue, given that, for many readers and scholars, Sappho has been a feminist heroine or a gay role model, or both. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Three women," he said, his flashing eyes looking her up and down as if he were angry with her, "have been poets: Sappho, Desbordes Valmore, Elizabeth Browning. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z It was left to experts in the illegal traffic of antiquities to point out that the “new” Sappho was not just a tender poem about her brothers – but also, and importantly, an ancient artefact. A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z They and all the other metres employed by him are based on those employed by the older poets of Greece—Alcaeus, Sappho, Archilochus, Alcman, &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z And on one of them is the tantalizing inscription, "The First Book of the Lyrics of Sappho, 1,332 lines." The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z A twelfth-century Byzantine scholar who had hoped to write about Sappho grumbled that “both Sappho and her works, the lyrics and the songs, have been trashed by time.” How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z There was Sappho, also, with her school of poetry attended by girls in Lesbos. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z In 1681 appeared her prose version of Anacreon and Sappho, and in the next few years she published prose versions of Terence and some of the plays of Plautus and Aristophanes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The antique Hellenic world rises with shining splendour in the poems Eranna to Sappho, Lament for Antinous, Early Apollo and the Archaic Torso of Apollo. Poems 2012-01-19T03:00:23.447Z And the result is undoubtedly a close approximation of the original lyric, more nearly complete, indeed, than most of the poems which have made critics call Sappho "the Tenth Muse." The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z The common theme of most ancient responses to Sappho’s work is rapturous admiration for her exquisite style or for her searing content, or both. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Catullus shows in the earlier stage of his poetic career his familiarity both with the 'Muse of Sappho,' and with the more laboured art of Callimachus. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Poor Sappho's fate shall Milton know— His scenes of grief and tales of woe No honours, that all Europe gave, No merit—shall from ruin save. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z Sappho Ah, faithless Phaon, thus from me to rove, And bless my rival in a foreign grove! The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z For Sappho is known only by two brief odes and a few lyric fragments—"two small brilliants and a handful of star dust," they have been called. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Comic playwrights and authors of light verse portrayed Sappho as just another daughter of Lesbos, only too happy to fall into bed with her younger male rivals. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z The fame of Catullus, as alone among ancient poets of love rivalling the traditional glory of Sappho, does not rest only on those poems which record the varying vicissitudes of his own experience. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The discovery for which he always hoped the most was of some further writings of Sappho herself. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Or didst thou find through all the changing fair One beauty that with Sappho could compare! The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z Sappho, he explains, clearly is away in exile. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z And so the new Sappho raises as many questions as it answers. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z His metres are happy applications of those invented or largely used by the earlier lyric poets of Greece,—Sappho, Anacreon, Archilochus,—and the later Phalaecus. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z I come now to the kindred Greek genius, who had a special fascination for him, the poetess Sappho. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Phaon, the admirer of Sappho, both of the isle of Lesbos, privately forsook this first object of his affections, and set out to visit foreign countries. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z The famous story of Sappho's vain pursuit of Phaon, and her death by leaping into the sea from the Leucadian promontory, were, it may safely be stated, inventions of the comic poets. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z But when it comes to Sappho’s personal life—the aspect of her biography that scholars and readers are most eager to know about—the ancient record is confused. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z It is written in hexameter verse, and in rhythm, thought, and feeling resembles some of the golden fragments from the Epithalamia of Sappho. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z I believe I owe it to him that I am a worshipper of that most marvellous muse of Sappho.... Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z But soon, too soon, the faithless lover fled To wander on some distant barbarous shore— Who knows if Phaon is alive or dead, Or wretched Sappho shall behold him more. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z But to readers of poetry who have not that peculiar literal-mindedness which characterizes scholars his interpretation of the translated poem, his explanation of Sappho's meaning, is anything but satisfactory. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Many other alleged facts of Sappho’s biography similarly dissolve on close scrutiny. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z In the former tragedy, a dramatization of the story of Hero and Leander, he returned to the Hellenic world of Sappho, and produced what is perhaps the finest of all German love-tragedies. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Sappho took her place in the galaxy of literary fame six hundred years before Christ. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z And Sappho: "Without the love of virtue gold is a dangerous and harmful guest, but when it is associated with virtue, it becomes the source and height of good." De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z Why is it not possible—even probable—that Sappho meant the poem as the utterance of someone else, of someone who existed only in her own splendid imagination? The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Ancient references to the poet’s “companions” and “students” have led one expert to argue that Sappho was the leader of a female collective, whose role was “instruction leading to marriage.” How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z The other great representative of the Aeolian lyric is Sappho, the only woman of Greek race who is known to have possessed poetical genius of the first order. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z I am most astonished that those Sapphos of sisters of mine did not prevent your putting such impertinence into the post. Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence 2011-11-11T03:00:25.690Z In an old and ashen island, Beside a city grey with death, They are seeking Sappho's tomb! Open Water 2011-10-14T02:00:31.043Z That Sappho used the name "Anactoria" in other poems does not prove that in that shadowy school on Lesbos there was a girl so named. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Indeed, the study of Sappho is beset by a curious circularity. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Intensity and melody are the characteristics of the fragments that remain to us.4 Probably no poet ever surpassed Sappho as an interpreter of passion in exquisitely subtle harmonies of form and sound. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z I often wonder what they'd have done, though, if it hadn't been for Sappho and Madame Curie.... A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z Once was her dear name Sappho, Singing the song of the cave— Of him who hurled with the stone, The hunter home from the hunting! The Piper and the Reed 2011-09-10T02:00:23.967Z The Phaon myth, however, Sappho herself might forgive, because of the literature it has begotten—Ovid's immortal epistle and Addison's fantasy, to mention only two examples. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z For non-classicists, the “Brothers Poem” may be less enthralling than the other recent Sappho find, the poem that surfaced in 2004, about old age—a bittersweet work indeed. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z They are of great beauty and throw considerable light on the personality of Sappho and the language and metre of her poems. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z One God, One Law, one Hope, one Faith, and one Desire, Are in the impulse of creative hands, And on the lips that sing—as sings the lad To Paul the prisoner, great Sappho's song! His Lady of the Sonnets 2011-09-10T02:00:23.740Z We talked about Sappho all through dinner, and he gave me several details about that young woman which I did not know before. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z There is a close kinship between the ideas expressed in the first and third stanzas of Sappho's poem and those of these lines: The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Sappho alludes to the story of Eos, the dawn goddess, who wished for, and was granted, eternal life for her mortal lover, Tithonus, but forgot to ask for eternal youth: How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z She was painted as Sappho, in a Greek chlamys, with her golden tresses flowing down her shoulders, and her arms bare to the shoulder. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z Still doth he sing; and always Sappho's song! His Lady of the Sonnets 2011-09-10T02:00:23.740Z Some of them form a felt-like substance of moss and bark woven together; others use a fungus resembling buff-leather; while the Sappho comet lines her nest with the long hairs of the clamas. The Cricket's Friends Tales Told by the Cricket, Teapot, and Saucepan 2011-08-23T02:00:33.033Z Lesbos is on the sea, so the picture of the white-winged ships came naturally to the mind of Sappho. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Still, given how disastrously cloying many attempts to re-create Sappho’s verse as “song” have proved to be, you’re grateful for Rayor’s directness. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z And Sappho jests upon Andromeda:— Sure by some milkmaid you've been taught To dress, whose gown is all too short To reach her sturdy ancles. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z This have I learned from the Athenian Who sings the song of Sappho unto Paul. His Lady of the Sonnets 2011-09-10T02:00:23.740Z Louisa Brachmann is, I believe, more renowned for her melancholy death than her poetical talents; both together have procured her the name of the "German Sappho." Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z This resemblance to twilight, "which bringeth all things good," as Sappho sang, may be welcome to interpreters who see in Hermes a personification of twilight. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Who in the “Brothers Poem” has been chattering on about Sappho’s brother Charaxus, and why? How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z And Sappho says— The goblets rich were with ambrosia crown'd, Which Hermes bore to all the gods around. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z It is the type of the goddess whom Sappho implored, and must be accepted as the general ideal of the Grecian worshippers who desired divine mediation when troubled with pangs of the heart. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z It is said that Sappho used it, and it is for this reason that Bacchis lays store on it. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z Then these songs, so wild, so caroling, so purely joyous—could Sappho sing more burningly of happiness and love? Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z Remarkably enough, this was the second major Sappho find in a decade: another nearly complete poem, about the deprivations of old age, came to light in 2004. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z So the son of Menelaus, although he was the bridegroom, and at his own wedding, acted; and in the poem of the beautiful Sappho, even Mercury acts as the cupbearer to the gods. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z This legend was early crystallized in a lyric poem of Sappho now lost, and thereafter became part of the common heritage of Greek and Roman popular mythology. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Even now, if the lyrics of Sappho and Alcæus were recovered from some Egyptian tomb or from the charred rolls of Herculaneum, it might have a disastrous effect on the popularity of Horace. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z I did once or twice wonder that Sappho and Horace should be her favorite poets, and Aspasia her model of female character. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z Four centuries after her death, scholars at the Library of Alexandria catalogued nine “books”—papyrus scrolls—of Sappho’s poems, organized primarily by metre. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Sappho dissolves the word ὦον into a trisyllable, making it ὤïον, when she says— They say that formerly Leda found an egg. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z There are a great many beautiful whites; of these, two that I most admire are Madame Carvalho and Sappho; the latter is an immense flower, with a conspicuous purple blotch. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z Sappho, 'tis true, long vers'd in epic song, For years esteem'd all household studies wrong; When, dire mishap, though neither shame nor sin, Sappho herself, and not her muse, lies in. The Fatal Falsehood 2011-05-31T02:00:36.033Z Sappho plumed her wings, but plunged quickly from the Leucadian cliff, and Milton soars steadfastly to the sun alone. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z Solon of Athens, son of Execestides, after hearing his nephew singing a song of Sappho’s over the wine, liked the song so much that he told the boy to teach it to him. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z She acquired French and Latin, and had the further courage, Mr. Torrens tells us, to undertake the recital of an ode of Sappho. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z She is said to have been an intimate friend of Sappho, and died at the age of eighteen. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z "Sappho" was performed for the first time on April 16, 1851, just before my thirty-second birthday. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z Frenchmen, it seemed, had nothing to do but follow these exalted precepts and to produce the most wonderful poetry which the world had seen since the days of Pindar and Sappho. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The Greeks, in fact, seem to have thought of Sappho as the female counterpart of Homer: he was known as “the Poet,” and they referred to her as “the Poetess.” How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Sappho and Helen and Mary of the Scots were not beautiful nor virtuous, as such terms go; they had imagination, and imagination gave them variety, and variety means endless charm. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z Modern research has proved that not Sappho, not Aspasia, nor even Cleopatra were women who would have attracted any special attention by reason of their physical beauty. The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms 2011-04-05T02:00:10.347Z I do not for a moment desire to claim the benefit of this excuse for my "Sappho." Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z That of the long poem afterwards called Anactoria has neither a title nor the Greek epigraph from Sappho. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The good news is that the surviving fragments of Sappho bear out the ancient verdict. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z It would make every poet from Sappho down to Swinburne a pretender or a madman. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z Racine has been much more happy than Boileau in his imitation of Sappho. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Though not exactly a success, "Sappho" brought me some solid advantage, both present and future. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z And why are you going as Sappho if it isn’t to show off your long hair?” Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z In Sappho’s biography, as in her work, gaps predominate. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Pardon me, Miss Binkie, but you really are a perfect Sappho.” Tales from Blackwood Volume 4 2011-03-04T03:00:58.347Z I know no more of Lady Mary Pierrepoint than to admire at what I have heard of her, or be pleased with some fragments of hers, as I am with Sappho's. The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-03-01T03:00:48.107Z No publisher had offered to publish the score of "Sappho," but that of "Ulysse" was more favoured. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z Marlowe and Shakespeare, Æschylus and Sappho, do not for us live only on the dusty shelves of libraries. Poems & Ballads (First Series) 2011-02-28T03:00:30.587Z Although her birthplace cannot be verified, Sappho seems to have lived mostly in Mytilene, the capital of Lesbos. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z I am told he breaks bounds sometimes to go in search of Sappho. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z He makes this confession with extreme bitterness,— Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit. The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-03-01T03:00:48.107Z My brother was taken ill on the 2nd; on the 3rd I signed my agreement with Roqueplan, whereby I undertook to hand him over the score of "Sappho" by September 30 at latest. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z I must leave it then to learned commentators to explore and elucidate the loves of Sappho and Anacreon. The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-02-25T03:01:04.597Z That tale has been embroidered, dramatized, and novelized over the centuries by writers from Ovid—who in one poem has Sappho abjectly renouncing her gay past—to Erica Jong, in her 2003 novel “Sappho’s Leap.” How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Sappho, Anacreon, Stesichorus and Pindar are all regarded as masters of the species, but the finest example preserved in Greek literature is the 18th Idyll of Theocritus, which celebrates the marriage of Menelaus and Helen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z True, this note existed very sparingly among the Greeks and Romans in Sappho and Catullus, but the romantic note was singularly absent from European literature in the early medieval ages. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Nestor Roqueplan, who was still Director of the Opera, had taken a fancy to "Sappho" and to me. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z In fact," with a burst of confidence, "I've got a part in this year's production of the Sappho Club. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z As time went on, the fantasies about Sappho’s private life became more extreme. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Her earliest publications were Sappho and Hammerstein, two poems which appeared at Leipzig in 1880. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Madam Dacier takes Notice of a very pretty Circumstance in Sappho's Hymn to Venus, translated into Latin by Catullus, and into English by Mr. Philips. An Essay on Criticism 2011-02-06T03:00:52.167Z In August last year, the first openly gay bar, Sappho Islands, arrived in the capital. Lost champion 2011-02-03T11:18:25Z A woman of fashion, we are told, reckoned it among her ornaments if it were said of her that she was well read and a thinker, and that she wrote lyrics almost worthy of Sappho. Education: How Old The New 2011-01-14T03:00:54.370Z Starting in the early nineteenth century, when classics itself was becoming a formal discipline, scholars who were embarrassed by what they found in the fragments worked hard to whitewash Sappho’s reputation. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Among the women, especially, were many who, like the Sappho of Green Springs, gathered from their lonely, primitive lives a freshness and originality which perhaps they never would have shown in more conventional surroundings. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Does not Sappho hold the lyre at the same time as Alcæus and Pindar? Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z She was named “the Sappho of Brabant” and the “Princess of all Rhetoricians.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z The verses, if Sulpicia's they be, are the sole surviving evidence of creative effort among her kind; and, respectable as they are, they need not disturb Sappho's repose. Education: How Old The New 2011-01-14T03:00:54.370Z But Lardinois and others have argued that many, if not most, of Sappho’s poems were written to be performed by choruses on public occasions. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z The story of Sappho and of Phaon has become almost, if not quite as well known, as that of Hero and Leander. Heathen Mythology Not since the days of Sappho and Aspasia had woman attained such prominence, and never were they, irrespective of class-condition, accorded greater liberty, privileges or honor. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z She says she has the three requisites; but where's the woman that don't think herself Sappho and Galatea combined? Beatrice Boville and Other Stories The splendid, untrammelled, and exuberant hexameters of Homer, the stanzas of Sappho, the iambics of Sophocles, furnished them with unspeakable pleasure, which did the greatest harm to the music of a certain Wagner. Underground Man Since then, the amount of Sappho that we have has more than doubled. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Sappho was celebrated for her beauty and her poetical talents, all of which she bestowed in love on Phaon. Heathen Mythology She was hailed as "The Tenth Muse," "The Sappho of Holland," "The Oracle of Art," "The Star of Utrecht." Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z I follow the ads in the Satevepost; I have picked the car to buy; I read the "Book of Etiquette," And "Sappho" on the sly. The Book of Gud Why not as soon have proposed the Infant Sappho? Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. The most tenacious theory held that Sappho was the head of a girls’ boarding school, a matron whose interest in her pupils was purely pedagogical. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Classical documents also were found in great numbers, and included a new Ode of Sappho, which, however, is unfortunately imperfect. The Story of Books In science Hypatia was among the women of antiquity what Sappho was in poetry and what Aspasia was in philosophy and eloquence—the chiefest glory of her sex. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z Of Sappho, seemingly the greatest poet of her sex, we can only dally with surmise from mutilated fragments. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII Of course I was looking for it; every one looks for the rock from which dark Sappho flung herself in her despair. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu Obbink’s revelation last year was, in fact, only the latest in a series of papyrological discoveries that have dramatically enhanced our understanding of Sappho and her work. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z On the southern extremity of the western portion of the coast is situated the rock whence Sappho is supposed to have sought "the end of all life's ends." Lafcadio Hearn Translations of some of Sappho's poems are easily found. The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. Sappho, who never wore a gingham wrapper and whose throat was unwrinkled and full of music, never sang more surely than did Mrs. Ginsburg into the heart-cells of her son. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole But even without Sappho it is a striking cliff; it rises perpendicularly from deep water, and it is so white that one fancies that it must be visible even upon the darkest night. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu Sappho herself, it seems fair to say, would have raised an eyebrow at Page’s confidence in his judgment. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Sappho, implies Mr. Pope, at her “toilette’s greasy task,” is quite a different individual to “Sappho fragrant at an evening mask.” The Religious Life of London Sappho herself could have well dispensed with the society of Phaon at such a moment. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. The most pungent essay in all literature is devoted to the succulency of roast pig; Sappho was most lyric after she had rubbed her wine goblet with garlic-flavored ewe meat. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole On seeing them one does not say, Can this be Sappho? Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern To clinch the identification, two names mentioned in the poem were ones that several ancient sources attribute to Sappho’s brothers. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z The greatest women in history—Catherine of Russia, Joan of Arc, Sappho, Queen Elizabeth—appear to have been swayed largely by their passions, physical or religious. The Intelligence of Woman This was followed by other poetical sculptures, among which were the “Babes in the Wood,” “Flora,” “Hebe and Ganymede,” “Sappho,” “Vesta,” the “Dancers,” and the “Hunter.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Martial also tells of a young woman who, he says, had the eloquence of Plato, the austerity of the Porch, and composed verses worthy of a chaste Sappho. Roman Women In what manner he first approached Sappho, whether indeed Sappho did not first approach him, is uncertain. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern The greatest problem for Sappho studies is that there’s so little Sappho to study. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Not much, so far, excepting Sappho and Mrs. Browning, certainly. Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions In this transition age, the name of one woman--Sappho--presents itself as the bright morning star in the history of cultured womanhood. Greek Women Sappho.—Here the pale purple sepals only are tipped with buff, while the petals, which curl over, are rose. The Woodlands Orchids These, mounting behind Sappho’s songs, spread through Hellas, creating as they spread a caste that borrowed from the girl her freedom, from the bard his wit, and, from the fusion, produced the hetaira. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern We don’t even know how much of her poetry Sappho actually wrote down. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z If thou return thy Sappho too shall stay, Not all the gods shall force me then away; Nor Love, nor Phœbus, then invoked shall be, For thou alone art all the gods to me. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition Sappho's unique greatness is best appreciated when we consider how she has been regarded by the great men of antiquity and of modern times. Greek Women With Theocritus we must read Sappho, “the poetess,” the ancients called her, as they called Homer “the poet.” Book Repair and Restoration Only Sappho, in her lost songs to Phaon, could have exceeded their fervor. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Classicists today have no problem with the idea of a gay Sappho. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z The muses teach me all their softest lays, And the wide world resounds with Sappho's praise. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition Addison, for example, says: "Among the mutilated poets of antiquity there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho." Greek Women Meleager, in the poem of his “Garland” of verse, says that he includes “of Sappho’s only a few but all roses.” Book Repair and Restoration Though twenty-five centuries have gone since then, Sappho is still unexceeded. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern This is why the “new Sappho” has been so galvanizing for classicists: every now and then, the circle expands, letting in a little more light. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Another version ran thus: Wouldst thou return, oh more than Phœbus, fair No god like thee could ease thy Sappho's care. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition The world has suffered no greater literary loss," says he, "than the loss of Sappho's poems. Greek Women Of his works in classical literature, the best known are an edition of the Euxenippus of Hypereides, and monographs on Pindar and Sappho. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" When Sappho sang, it was with all her fervent soul. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Among the latter were several exciting new fragments of Sappho, some substantial. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Her letters were exposed, her expostulatory verses read at clubs and taverns, and the unhappy Sappho toasted in derision. Coelebs In Search of a Wife And Swinburne, her best modern interpreter, calls Sappho "the unapproachable poetess," and says: "Her remaining verses are the supreme success, the final achievement, of the poetic art." Greek Women At my soul some Protean elf is: You 're Simaetha, I am Delphis; You are Sappho and her Phaon— I. We love. Days and Dreams Poems To the latter the Mitylenes attributed the wonder of the beauty of their nightingales, chief among whom was Sappho. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern A swashbuckling merchant sailor, he supposedly spent a fortune to buy the freedom of a favorite courtesan in Egypt—an act, Herodotus reports, for which Sappho “severely chided” her sibling in verse. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z In the expression of the triumph and despair of love, not sicklied over with any thought as in most modern poets, only Catullus and Sappho can touch Burns. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Sappho was at the zenith of her fame about the beginning of the sixth century before the Christian era. Greek Women Or marry Sappho, and you will find she will never want any but simple pleasures within your means, as long as you are kind to her and adore her as she requires to be adored. Modern marriage and how to bear it Taking the steamer to Smyrna, she passed through the star-like clusters of the isles of Greece—those isles "where burning Sappho loved and sung;" and from Smyrna she hastened to Athens. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century Here as elsewhere in the new translation, Diane J. Rayor captures the distinctively plainspoken quality of Sappho’s Greek, which, for all the poet’s naked emotionality and love of luxe, is never overwrought or baroque. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Choriambic verse was first used by the poets of the Greek islands, and Sappho, in particular, produced magnificent effects with it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" It was impossible for the Athenians, who kept their women in seclusion, to understand how a woman could enjoy the freedom of life and movement that Sappho enjoyed and yet remain chaste. Greek Women How often one hears statements such as ‘Juno Jones wouldn’t make a good wife, she’s out all day playing golf;’ or ‘I couldn’t afford to marry Sappho Smith, she’s too fond of dress and theatre-going.’ Modern marriage and how to bear it While on this matter of love considered as a disorder of mind and body, I recall a recent magazine article of Mr. Finck's, in which he analyzes Sappho's conception of love. The Kempton-Wace Letters The classicist M. L. West, who published a translation in the Times Literary Supplement, took pains to emulate the long line of Sappho’s original: How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z George Sand is the greatest female genius of the world, at least since Sappho.” The Brownings Their Life and Art Of Sappho's numerous songs, two odes alone are presented to us in anything like their entirety, one dedicated to the service of Aphrodite, and the other composed in honor of a girl friend, Anactoria. Greek Women "To Sappho", by Olive G. Owen, is a lyrical poem of much merit, yet having a defective line. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Sappho, long since, in the years far sped, Sappho, I loved thee! Collected Poems Volume Two The Cologne manuscript dates to the third century B.C., which makes it the oldest and therefore presumably the most reliable manuscript of Sappho that we currently possess. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z “Long Ago,” a number of poems written to innestare what fragmentary lines and words we have left of Sappho’s poetry. The Brownings Their Life and Art Question me smiling--say to me, 'My Sappho, Who is it wrongs thee? Greek Women In a journey which Mademoiselle Scudéry, the Sappho of the French, made along with her no less celebrated brother, a curious incident befell them at an inn at a great distance from Paris. Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches Prefixed to the Calendar is an introductory note . . . displaying that intimate acquaintance with Sappho’s lost poems which is the privilege only of those who are not acquainted with Greek literature. A Critic in Pall Mall Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies I fed upon Swinburne, believe me, I feasted on Byron and Burns, And couplets from Sappho would give me Most exquisite turns. A line-o'-verse or two There have been a few great women poets—notably a Sappho, many good writers of fiction, and some capable painters. The Truth About Woman Catullus, in despair, seems to have been content with adapting in his marriage odes well-known songs of Sappho. Greek Women "Who was Sappho, and what did she do?—I know, but I've forgotten," asked a voice in the crowd. Audrey Craven Stannum could discern no melody, though he grasped its beginnings; double flutes gave him the modes, Dorian, Phrygian, Æolian, Lydian and Ionian; after Sappho and her Mixolydian mode, he longed for a modern accord.... Melomaniacs Under Poetry are grouped Apollo and the Muses, and the figures of Homer, Dante and Virgil, of Petrarcha, Anacreon and Sappho, of Pindar and of Horace are recognized. Italy, the Magic Land Sappho, whose "lofty and subtle genius" places her as the one woman for whose achievement in poetry no apology on the grounds of her sex ever needs to be made, was of Æolian race. The Truth About Woman A being so intense as Sappho, with sensibilities so refined and intuitions so keen, naturally possessed an ardent love of nature. Greek Women "Not bad for the boy, that!" said he, smiling gently at Sappho. Audrey Craven Goldmark's overture to "Sappho" given in Cincinnati, O., under Theodore Thomas. Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events And has my little Margy-wargles forgotten what Sappho said of an old maid? In a Little Town He calls her his silent Sappho, but I fancy Odalisque is a better name for her. Olive in Italy This excited the anger of the gods, and in obedience to an oracle she, like the traditional Sappho, threw herself down from the Lover's Leap of Leucate. Greek Women She also modelled a Sappho, a Lesbia, and some dozen busts. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 Massenet's opera "Sappho" presented at the Manhattan Opera House, New York City, with Mary Garden in the title rôle. Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events Well," she resumed, "when Professor Hobkin was out, I examined his life work, an edition of Sappho. Monday or Tuesday This led to close inquiry, and it was proved that he was the great-great-grandson of Sappho; so that, according to the common expression, he had only 1-16th of her blood in his veins. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) Sappho refers to a daughter by this name in one of the extant fragments, but none of these other statements are corroborated. Greek Women The metres are nearly all taken from Sappho and Alcaeus, the two poets whose works Horace wished to present to his countrymen in a Roman dress. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Mr. William Kemble, apart from his artistic tastes, owned a number of fine pictures, among which was a Sappho by a Spanish master. As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century "Since Sappho there has been no female of first rate——" Eleanor began, quoting from a weekly newspaper. Monday or Tuesday Sad Hero holds a torch forth, and doth light Her lost Leander through the waves and night, Her boatman desp'rate Sappho still admires, And nothing but the sea can quench her fires. Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II Alc�us, the poet of love and wine and war, was a native of Mytilene, and a contemporary of Sappho, and the two poets no doubt knew each other well. Greek Women "One set her eyes like Sappho's—or Any light woman's! one forbore Like Dante, or any man as poor "In mirth, to let a smile undo His hard shut lips. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Dr. Gill, however, organized a more complex plan of operations upon Iris in 1888, and upon Victoria and Sappho in 1889. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition Accordingly, with gay Sultanas, Rebeccas, Sapphos, Roxalanas— Circassian slaves, whom Love would pay Half his maternal realms to ransom;— Young nuns, whose chief religion lay In looking most profanely handsome! Highways and Byways in Surrey And they took it to themselves, so I made haste to repeat another, very sarcastic, well known to all educated people: Yes, Sappho and Phaon are we! The Brothers Karamazov But there is no doubt whatever that Anacreon flourished at least a generation after Sappho, so that the two could never have met. Greek Women In poetry, Sappho was honored with the title of the Tenth Muse. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Æschylus, because we read his plays! Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature Clearly the two heard the marriage hymn of Sappho. A Victor of Salamis There was no sign of poetry dying when Shelley lived two thousand five hundred years after Sappho, when Shakespere lived as long after Homer. A History of Elizabethan Literature The story of Sappho's love for Phaon and her leap from the Leucadian rock in consequence of his disdaining her, though it has been so long implicitly believed, rests on no historical basis. Greek Women The planets Iris, Victoria, and Sappho happened, in the years 1888 and 1889, to approach so close to the earth that arrangements were made for simultaneous measurements in both the northern and the southern hemispheres. The Story of the Heavens With the soul of a Sappho, she lived like a nun, Hid her thoughts from all women, from men kept apart, And carefully guarded the book of her heart From the world's prying eyes. Three Women Sappho and Catullus, Villon and Marlowe, are as vivid and fresh to-day as are Walter de la Mare or Edgar Lee Masters. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Alcæus and Sappho lived on the Isle of Lesbos, and were surrounded with admirers. Ancient States and Empires Only in the present century have the ancient calumnies against Sappho been seriously investigated. Greek Women In the monumental piece of work which issued in 1897 from the Cape Observatory, under the direction of Dr. Gill, the final results from the observations of Iris, Victoria, and Sappho have been obtained. The Story of the Heavens Body of Venus and soul of Sappho, I give it up. A Pessimist In Theory and Practice Perhaps not since Sappho has there been such a person. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations It may, while keeping closer, be as good as Catullus on Sappho or as bad as Mr. Gladstone on Toplady in form; but the form, even if copied, is always again other. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 The whole tendency of modern scholarship is to vindicate the name of Sappho. Greek Women In these Memoirs, Fléchier relates an anecdote of a young lady “who was the Sappho of the country,” and greatly beloved by all the beaux esprits of the time. Pascal Perchance this pearl, without a speck, Once was as warm on Sappho’s neck; Where are the happy, twilight pearls That braided Beatrice’s curls? Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature I've thought it all out and decided that I shall be the American Sappho. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life I don't see the necessity for thinking the passion hopeless either, because of the comparison with Sappho. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Epithalamia, or wedding songs, were the most numerous of all Sappho's works, and in them she attained an excellence unequalled by any other poet. Greek Women For one of Sappho he gives dates and the hours required for various parts, making a total of thirty-nine. James Watt Near the coast of Asia Minor lies the beautiful island of Lesbos, the birthplace of the poets Sappho, Alcæus, and Terpander, and of other famous writers and sages of the past. Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality He made several separate statues which are well known; his Psyche has a butterfly poised on the upper part of the arm; Atalanta is fastening her sandals; Sappho is in despair. A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture That is Sappho, is it not? and pray was Sappho one of the nine muses? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 All that we know about Greek women, with the exception of the fragments of Sappho's poems, is derived from chronicles written by men. Greek Women He has in his mind the words, "He saved others, Himself He cannot save," and, applying this to Sappho, asks, "Why did she who conferred immortality on herself by her verse prove herself mortal?" The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 The modifications of the ode are from the fictitious theology of Orpheus and Museus to the elegance and grace of Anacreon, Horace, and Sappho. An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients And in a world where a single line of Sappho's survives as a something more important than the entire political history of Lesbos, how little will the daily newspaper help us to take long views! From a Cornish Window A New Edition Having returned to Europe, and become commander of a privateer in the service of his country, he was captured after a smart resistance by the British ships Sappho and Clio. The History of Tasmania, Volume I The term het�r� had been originally a most honorable one, and Sappho had used it, in the highest and best sense, of her girl friends as implying companions of like rank and interests. Greek Women Dark Sappho! could not Verse immortal save That breast imbued with such immortal fire? The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 Thus Horace says, when comparing him to Sappho, that he sung so forcibly of wars, disasters, and shipwrecks, that the Ghosts stood still to hear him in silent astonishment43. An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients He translated, likewise, the epistle of Sappho to Phaon, from Ovid, to complete the version which was before imperfect; and wrote some other small pieces, which he afterwards printed. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II The soul Aeolian took up the lyre Born upon Thracian lands, as foster child; And on its golden strings the restless beatings Of Sappho's and Erinna's flaming hearts Were echoed burningly. Life Immovable First Part Pittacus was tyrant of Mytilene at this time, and Sappho probably returned to Lesbos at the time when he granted amnesty to political exiles. Greek Women Margaret found it very difficult to keep up any sort of conversation with her companions, for her boy, anxious to do honour to his mistress's donkey, kept Sappho well ahead of Michael Amory's mule. There was a King in Egypt Sappho and Horace were employed in the same manner. An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients Her hair was of a marvelous, coppery, low tone, and her features were those of Sappho. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers The latter half of the first stanza would have been worthy of Sappho. Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Plato, in the Phaedrus, calls Sappho "beautiful," but he was probably referring to the sweetness of her songs. Greek Women Margaret's was a fine, well-bred animal, called Sappho, with a skin as smooth as a white suede glove; it stood almost as high as a mule. There was a King in Egypt The bird was like some sweet elusive thought; The maid, a Sappho, weary with pursuit. Stories in Verse Herein lies an error, just as a sculptor would err who should present Lady Godiva as fully draped, or Sappho merely as a sweet singer of Lesbos, or Antinous only as a fine young man. The Gypsies It was strong as that of a Sappho for an Erinna; tender and constant as that of a mother for her child. Mary Wollstonecraft The portrait of Sappho is preserved on coins of Mytilene, which present a face exquisite in contour. Greek Women The procession of ancients was brilliant and long, Aristotle and Plato were there, Thucydides, too, and Tacitus strong, And Plutarch, and Sappho the fair. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries For thus only may you share your betters' fate, and be at one with those famed comedies of Greek Menander and all the poignant songs of Sappho. Chivalry It is noticeable that with the exception of Sappho—a name associated with certain fine fragments—women have not excelled in poetry or art. Human Traits and their Social Significance Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace,— Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel A fifth century vase, preserved in Munich, gives us representations of Alc�us and Sappho, in which Sappho is taller than Alc�us, of imposing figure and exceedingly beautiful. Greek Women Juno, who was very musical, made quite a stately Sappho. Peggy Stewart at School If it be not, how comes it that women have given you no great poet since the days of Sappho? Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida Poor sea of the Lion-heart and of the Sappho of the songs! The Wind Bloweth Viewing these enlivening scenes, why may we not cry in the words of Sappho, "Wealth without thee, Worth, is a shameless creature; but the mixture of both is the height of happiness"? Second Book of Tales Alma-Tadema has fixed the current tradition in his ideal representation of Sappho's school at Lesbos--a marble exedra on the seashore at Mytilene. Greek Women Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Don Juan When a poem has once been written, of what consequence is it to anybody whether it was inspired by a line of Sappho or by a lady living round the corner? Figures of Several Centuries Here the Cypriotes had sailed under the lee of the islands Byron loved and where Sappho sang her songs like wine and honey, sharp wine and golden honey. The Wind Bloweth We asked this same gentleman if he had read the new edition of Sappho's poems. Second Book of Tales The complete works of Sappho must have been considerable. Greek Women The princess raised her eyes involuntarily to the Sappho over the mantelpiece. Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania Sappho, Greek poetess of the sixth century B.C., called “The Tenth Muse.” Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 See! the Hours their watch are keeping; Lovely lieth Sappho sleeping! The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 So far as I can make out, this man Sapolio—I mean Sappho—never did any sustained or consecutive work. Second Book of Tales The rose seems to have been her favorite flower, for, says Philostratus, "Sappho loves the rose, and always crowns it with some praise, likening beautiful maidens to it." Greek Women "You look up at the Sappho," said the marchioness. Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania It is fair to class Sappho as a musician, for in ancient Greece poetry and music were inseparable. Woman's Work in Music Oh! had he addressed me in indulgent words as these, who knows but that, like burning Sappho, I might have sang as well as loved? Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author As we understand it, Sappho and the circus had their beginning about the same time: if any thing, the origin of the circus antedated Sappho's birth some years, and has achieved the more wide-spread popularity. Second Book of Tales Sappho's love for nature is only surpassed by her love for art, for splendor and festivity, as they appeal to the �sthetic nature. Greek Women The reclining Sappho answered her, and a few minutes later there came a knock on the back of the fireplace. Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania Because of Sappho's prominence and social activity, but more especially because of the ardent character of some of her poems, her good name has been assailed by many modern critics. Woman's Work in Music In imagination I was Corinna, improvising the impassioned strains of Italy, or a Sappho, breathing out my soul, like the dying swan, in strains of thrilling melody. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Sappho was an exceedingly handsome person, as we see by the engraving which serves as the frontispiece of the work before us. Second Book of Tales "I think there will be memory of us yet in after days," said Sappho, and the sentiment is one which later poets have often imitated. Greek Women If the painted Sappho was alive, why did she give these signs only at night, and not in the daytime as well? Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania Leaving the realms of the supernatural, the only great name that the student will find among the musical women of Greece is that of Sappho. Woman's Work in Music It is to be noticed, however, that the Arabs, while taking much from the Greeks, did not take any of their literature, properly so-called—neither Sophocles, Euripides, Sappho, Anacreon, nor Demosthenes. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present The amiable gentleman who reads manuscripts for Rand, McNally & Co. says that Sappho's manuscripts were submitted to him a year ago. Second Book of Tales Not only as a poet is Sappho of interest to the women of our day, but also because she was the founder of the first woman's club of which we have knowledge. Greek Women One evening, as she was preparing to retire, and was standing for a moment before her mirror, the Sappho seemed to give vent to a ripple of laughter. Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania The story of Sappho and Phaon is one of these, but it has been claimed that its authenticity vanishes at the first breath of criticism. Woman's Work in Music I thought I heard the harp of Pindar, and the impassioned song of the dark-eyed Sappho. Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales But while there was a pretty general disposition to criticise Sappho, there was only one opinion as to the circus-parade; and that was complimentary. Second Book of Tales Sappho attracted by her fame young women of Lesbos and of neighboring cities. Greek Women It was the Sappho's tones that she heard. Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania The career of Sappho is made more wonderful by the fact that woman's work in ancient Greece was supposed to consist only of family duties. Woman's Work in Music He had enough on his hands, so he wrote her a cheque and, with a courtesy which must have made Sappho quite desperate, put her out of the room. The Young Duke Would Chicago hesitate a moment in choosing between Sappho and Mdlle. Second Book of Tales While manifesting the beauty and sweetness and satisfaction in woman's love for woman, Sappho did not attempt to make this love a substitute for the love of men. Greek Women Since Sappho loved and sang, there has been no such national lyrist as Burns. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Among other works are three orchestral arias, "Sappho's Prayer to Aphrodite," for alto; "Armida," for soprano; and the yet unperformed "Phœbus," for baritone. Woman's Work in Music This thrilling tableau is a representation of a scene from the popular opera of Sappho. Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants A South-Side packer, who has the largest library in the city, told us that he had not seen Sappho's works yet, but that he intended to read them at an early date. Second Book of Tales The second of the nine Terrestrial Muses--for Sappho was, of course, the first--was the poetess's favorite and most promising pupil, Erinna of the isle of Telos. Greek Women It contained a couplet, too gross for quotation, making the most outrageous imputation upon the character of "Sappho." Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series The great poet of Love was not Anacreon, but Sappho, whose heart and mind were both of the finest. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Sappho, the heroine of the tableau, stands on the platform between the two pedestals; the left hand rests on the top of one of the pedestals, and the other is raised up at arm's length. Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants I have simply glanced through the Sappho book," said another distinguished representative of local culture; "and what surprised me, was the pains that has been taken in getting up the affair. Second Book of Tales Ibycus resembles Sappho in the intensity of his passion and in his conception of Eros as a concrete existence. Greek Women Sappho was an obvious name for the most famous of poetic ladies. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series Sappho is no more, And no more Sapphos will be, in your time; The tree is dead on one side that before Ran with such burning sap of love and rhyme. The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems Their costume should be similar to the others; position the same, while the hands are clasped in front of the bosom, and the eyes are directed to the form of Sappho. Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants Sappho was a gamey old girl, you know. Second Book of Tales Sappho consecrated herself heart and soul to the elevation of her sex. Greek Women Alas no part Of all this beauty infinite, the gods And cruel fate to wretched Sappho gave! The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi She draws her own likeness under the name of Sappho. The Friendships of Women A red fire should be thrown on the platform and the figure of Sappho. Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants She believed she was in communication with the spirits of Sappho, Shakespeare, Madame de S�vign�, and Moli�re; and amidst these convictions she died, without disquietude, without rebellion, without regret. The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 The perpetuation of the story is due chiefly to Ovid, who, in his epistle, Sappho to Phaon, tells of her unquenchable love and of her determination to attempt the leap. Greek Women In a conversation at the house of Sappho, a discussion once arose upon the question whether death was a blessing or an evil. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life The exchange of their thoughts was so sincere that all those in Sappho's mind passed into Phaon's, and all those in Phaon's came into Sappho's. The Friendships of Women We do not find burning passion to be a distinct feature in Plato, in Milton, in Goethe, or in Matthew Arnold, while it is emphatic in Sappho, in Byron, and in Shelley. Platform Monologues So lives Sappho, and thus did Charles Kingsley secure the composite of the great woman who lives and throbs through his book. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers The legend did not connect itself with Sappho until two centuries after her death, and then only in the comic poets; hence it can have no basis in fact. Greek Women Some maintained, the former alternative; but Sappho victoriously closed the debate by saying, If it were a blessing to die, the immortal gods would experience it. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Sappho was the head of one of them. The Friendships of Women Maiden, laudable is that high emotion, Muse more rapturous, you, than any Sappho. The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Pindar, Anacreon, Sappho, and Horace, are the great masters of lyric poetry among Heathen writers. The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 The tradition of Sappho's �olian grave, preserved in the Anthology, indicates strongly that she died a peaceful death on her own island. Greek Women Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of War and Peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 That qualification may be drawn from the history of Sappho. The Friendships of Women Had Sappho's self not left her word thus long For token, The sea round Lesbos yet in waves of song Had spoken. Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III Sappho's Muse, like Lady ——, is passionately tender, and glowing; like oil set on fire, she is soft, and warm, in excess. The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 Sappho," says Edwin Arnold, "loved, and loved more than once, to the point of desperate sorrow; though it did not come to the mad and fatal leap from Leucate, as the unnecessary legend pretends. Greek Women Catharine was dreadfully disappointed, nor was she completely consoled by being styled—by no less a person than Sophia Charlotte, Queen of Prussia—"The Sappho of Scotland." Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Light thrown on the Condition of Women in Greece by the History of Sappho. The Friendships of Women Like this in part, but unhappily only in part, is the story of the poems of Sappho. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 The incarnate appearance of gods, as in Sappho's invocation to Aphrodite, must not be taken as poetic licence · they are frequently hallucinations. We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8 Sappho was violently incensed at his conduct, and resorted to verse for the expression of her anger and humiliation. Greek Women Her mind was wonderful, too, aflame, like Sappho's, with the love of beauty. Roads from Rome For instance, Sappho, in dealing with the passionate manifestations attending on the frenzy of lovers, always chooses her strokes from the signs which she has observed to be actually exhibited in such cases. On the Sublime The centuries went on, and Sappho came before the tribunal of the early Christian Church. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 Stretching his arm to the escritoire, he softly opened a side drawer, took out an oval-shaped engraving of his favourite Sappho, and compared the nose, chin, and ear with those of the unconscious girl. Infelice Democharis, in the Anthology, in an epigram on a statue of Sappho, speaks of her bright eyes and compares her beauty with that of Aphrodite. Greek Women This remark applies also, and in a stonger degree, to the “Stanzas on a Gipsy Child,” which, and the “Modern Sappho,” previously mentioned, are the pieces least to our taste in the volume. The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art It is very easy to detect the unwholesome element which has inspired many of them, even the titles being indicative: ‘Sappho,’ ‘Antinous,’ ‘Amor Sacramentum.’ Masques & Phases It was almost by accident that the name of Sappho was first associated with the slanders that have ever since clung round it. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 The volume also contains some of my less faulty translations, as from Sappho, Æschylus, Pythagoras, Virgil, Horace, Dante, Petrarch, &c. My Life as an Author Let us now consider the conditions under which Sappho's genius blossomed to fruition. Greek Women Her neck and shoulders were like satin, and the head above them reminded me of Sappho's which we see in marble. Arms and the Woman This p. 7is none other than the recovery of the long-lost poems of Sappho, manuscripts of which were last heard of in the tenth century, when they were burnt at Rome and Byzantium. Masques & Phases Indeed, it is of but little use to quote; for Sappho can be known only in her own language and by those who will devote time to these inestimable fragments. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 Don't you remember how the blood throbbed in his veins and how he grew blind with desire, a scene more magical than the passionate love-lines of Sappho? Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 Amid such surroundings, burning Sappho sang: "Songs that move the heart of the shaken heaven, Songs that break the heart of the earth with pity, Hearing, to hear them." Greek Women I go babbling about my wasted brain and fading looks as if I'd been a mixture of Sappho and Helen of Troy.... Dangerous Ages In the same lot of rubbish, purporting to come from the Fayyûm, were the alleged poems of Sappho. Masques & Phases NOTES.—Sappho was a Greek poetess living on the island of Lesbos, about 600 B. C. Delos is one of the Grecian Archipelago, and is of volcanic origin. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader I carried Teresa the Italian translation of Grillparzer's Sappho, which she promises to read. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals Within the last few months, Doctor Schubart, of the Egyptian Section of the Royal Museum in Berlin, has discovered in papyri, recently added to its collection, several hitherto unknown poems of Sappho. Greek Women He may be in his practice and disposition a philosopher, and yet sometimes speak with the softness of an amorous Sappho. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II The papyrus was of great length, and contained the poems of Sappho in a cursive literary handwriting of the third century—the real poems, lost to the world for over eight hundred years. Masques & Phases The invention of the latter is attributed to Sappho by Plutarch, quoting Aristoxenus. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University In the final scene of Sappho's suicide, the young composer surpassed himself, and struck a note of sensuous melancholy which was new to French opera. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. Like Sappho, Nossis "of womanly accents" is a love poetess, and twelve epigrams attributed to her are found in the Anthology. Greek Women A Castilian nymph conceived by Sappho and executed by Myron, would not have had more grace and simplicity. Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment And when thou find'st that youth and beauty fly, As heavenly meteors from our dazzled eye, Still may the garland shed perfume, and shine, While Laura's mind and Sappho's heart are thine. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827 The Mixolydian, which was Sappho's mode, was the mode for sentiment and passion. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Here and there, individual women gained the training necessary for leadership, as in the cases of Sappho, Aspasia or Hypatia; but the great mass of women was sternly repressed. Woman in Modern Society There was Sappho, now; she ran and cast herself off a rock. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 She was herself a woman of wide erudition, and her fame as a poet was such as to win for her, according to the fashion of the day, the title of "the Dutch Sappho." History of Holland In 1851, however, he brought out his first opera, "Sappho," which met with success. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers Your grandfather used to be very fond of quoting something from 'Sappho,'" she returned thoughtfully, "or was it from Mr. Pope? The Wheel of Life The world of scholarship was at that time agitated by the recent discovery of what might or might not prove to be a fragment of Sappho. A Christmas Garland You have taken the right classical way with her: think of Theseus and Ariadne, Phaon and Sappho. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 But Sappho, who, to the antique world was a pillar of flame, is to us but a pillar of shadow. Miscellanies Because there are more among 'em that imitate Sappho in Manners, than are like her in Wit. Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. "I say!" he exclaimed, with gentle mockery, "have you been reading 'Sappho' at your age?" The Wheel of Life To my surprise, Ibsen, whom I had been unprepared to regard as a classical scholar, said positively that they had not been written by Sappho. A Christmas Garland |
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