Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Sappho
- Cambridge Companions to Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to Sappho
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Contexts
- Part II Poetics
- Chapter 7 Sappho and Genre
- Chapter 8 Performing Sappho
- Chapter 9 Sappho’s Metres and Music
- Chapter 10 Sappho’s Dialect
- Chapter 11 Sappho’s Poetic Language
- Chapter 12 Sappho’s Personal Poetry
- Chapter 13 Sappho’s Lyric Sensibility
- Chapter 14 Myth in Sappho
- Chapter 15 The Gods in Sappho
- Part III Transmission
- Part IV Receptions
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index to the Reception of Sappho
- Plate Section
- References
Chapter 12 - Sappho’s Personal Poetry
from Part II - Poetics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 April 2021
- The Cambridge Companion to Sappho
- Cambridge Companions to Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to Sappho
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Contexts
- Part II Poetics
- Chapter 7 Sappho and Genre
- Chapter 8 Performing Sappho
- Chapter 9 Sappho’s Metres and Music
- Chapter 10 Sappho’s Dialect
- Chapter 11 Sappho’s Poetic Language
- Chapter 12 Sappho’s Personal Poetry
- Chapter 13 Sappho’s Lyric Sensibility
- Chapter 14 Myth in Sappho
- Chapter 15 The Gods in Sappho
- Part III Transmission
- Part IV Receptions
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index to the Reception of Sappho
- Plate Section
- References
Summary
Chapter 12 of The Cambridge Companion to Sappho discusses Sappho’s poetic persona and its relationship to a putative historical figure; it exploits the material so fruitful in the biographical tradition from another angle, to illuminate the character types and roles constructed within Sappho’s poems and how they help to authorise the poet and engage her audience.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Sappho , pp. 163 - 174Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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