Word: sappho
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...those who like her?and there are those who rank her with Sappho, Elizabeth Browning, Christina Rossetti?the publication of Further Poems is an event delectable and important...
...ANTHOLOGY or WORLD POETRY-Edited by Mark Van Doren-Simon & Schuster ($5). Discrimination as well as scope is in this fine piece of editing. The authors range from Li Tai-po to Sappho and Goethe; the translators from Swinburne to Edwin Arlington Robinson...
...Grillparzer's 'Sappho'", Professor Sliz Sever...
...Bangs wrote stories about a yachting party near Hell. Producer Ned Jakobs thought that these stories deserve to be perpetuated on the stage, with song-&-dancing. That is the purpose of The Houseboat on the Styx, that and moneymaking. Adam, Barnum, Captain Kidd. Sherlock Holmes and Cleopatra; Mrs. Noah, Sappho, Charon, Josephine and Sir Walter Raleigh-all the Bangsian characters come on deck to sing somewhat Gilbertian songs and utter up-to-the-hour Times Squarese. Blanche Ring as Queen Elizabeth shouts, when someone offers her a drink: "Swine!" "No," is the answer, " 'sapplejack." Its first evening, The Houseboat...
Miss Hall has depicted sympathetically the mutual loneliness of two women; and told frankly how they appeased it in the classic fashion set by Ancient Grecian maidens on the historic Isle of Lesbos. This same theme was hymned by Sappho, universally esteemed by classicists as the greatest poetess who ever lived. To a London policeman or magistrate, however, the very words "Lesbianism" or "Sapphism" are unmentionable, vile...