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long tradition of reading Sappho as if she were a metrical body.
— Sep 14, 2012 03:02PM
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A married woman is not existent in law, except for purposes of suffering (C Norton paraphase)
— Sep 18, 2012 02:21PM
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Reading about Caroline Norton always brings me down.
— Sep 18, 2012 02:18PM
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personification conventionally endows a figure with the agency of a person... woman as personified abstraction whose personal agency is suspended
— Sep 18, 2012 02:08PM
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Prins argues that several of Christina Rossetti's poem are implicitly about or influenced by Sappho.
— Sep 18, 2012 01:49PM
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Germaine Greer seems to take at face value Victorian women poets' pretense of private, uncritical writing.
— Sep 18, 2012 10:38AM
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Wm Bell Scott illustration for LEL shows Sappho delicately swooning from the cliff.
— Sep 18, 2012 08:41AM
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L.E.L. makes Sappho express regret for her poetic/musical career, which "poisoned" her life.
— Sep 17, 2012 04:25PM
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Wow, Queen Victoria was a pretty decent etcher! Did not know.
— Sep 17, 2012 04:04PM
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Revisionary readings of the canon by feminist critics often assume a rhetoric of loss, in fact, as if it is only by losing women poets that we can read them anew.
— Sep 17, 2012 03:52PM
