Sappho and her influenceRobinson, David M. (David Moore)
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Sappho and her influence
Robinson, David M. (David Moore)
Sappho -- Influence
[173] My copy is dated London 1810 and is anonymous, _Poésies de Sapho
suivies de différentes Poésies dans le même genre_. It contains also _Les
Tourterelles de Zelmis_ and the _Poésies Erotiques_ of M. de Parny, who
was such an admirer of Sappho. The adaptations are the same as those of
Sauvigny. Why this edition is anonymous, I do not know.
[174] XII, p. 181 ed. Furne, Jouvet et Cie., Paris.
[175] My edition is Giguet et Michaud, Paris, 1805. This book with its
long notes and citations, though little known, is important for the
student of Sappho’s influence.
[176] Cf. Wilamowitz, _Sappho und Simonides_, pp. 63-69 on _Chansons de
Bilitis_, pp. 71-78 on Lesbian Love.
[177] Cf. Edwin M. Cox, p. 5, where he quotes Barnabe Barnes’
_Parthenophil and Parthenophe_, 1593:
O, that I could make her, whom I love best,
Find in a face, with misery wrinkled,
Find in a heart, with sighs over ill-pined,
Her cruel hatred.
In Davison’s _Poetical Rhapsody_, 1602, are some Sapphics by the
mysterious “A. W.” Here is a sample:
Hatred eternal, furious revenging,
Merciless raging, bloody persecuting;
Slanderous speeches, odious revilings;
Causeless abhorring.
In 1601 Campion and Roseter, _Lyrics, Elegies_, etc., give a clumsy
example of Sapphic verse. In 1614 a tract called _The Martyrdom of Saint
George of Cappadocia_ contains at the end some “Sapphicks” which resemble
the real Sappho only in having the same number of syllables to the verse.
Cox and all others, so far as I know, fail to mention Sir Philip Sidney’s
translation of the second ode.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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