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Sappho Inspired by Love 1775, Angelica Kauffmann.The text Sappho is writing in this painting comes from lines 25–26 of the Ode to Aphrodite. The Ode to Aphrodite (or Sappho fragment 1 [a]) is a lyric poem by the archaic Greek poet Sappho, who wrote in the late seventh and early sixth centuries BCE, in which the speaker calls on the help of Aphrodite in the pursuit of a beloved.
Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women is a book of poems by Maya Angelou, published in 1995. [1] The poems in this short volume were published in Angelou's previous volumes of poetry. "Phenomenal Woman," "Still I Rise," and "Our Grandmothers" appeared in And Still I Rise (1978) and "Weekend Glory" appeared in Shaker, Why Don't You Sing ...
Avvaiyar (12th-century poet) Avvaiyar (Tamil: ஔவையார்) was a Tamil poet who lived during the period of Kambar and Ottakoothar during the reign of the Chola dynasty in the twelfth century. [1] She is often imagined as an old and intelligent lady by Tamil people. Many poems and the Avvai Kural, comprising 310 kurals in 31 chapters ...
And Still I Rise is Maya Angelou's third volume of poetry. She studied and began writing poetry at a young age. [1] After her rape at the age of eight, as recounted in her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), she dealt with her trauma by memorizing and reciting great works of literature, including poetry, which helped bring her out of her self-imposed muteness.
Calcutta If You Must Exile Me. " Calcutta If You Must Exile Me " is the best known single poem of the renowned Indian English poet and media personality Pritish Nandy. The poem is widely anthologised in major Indian English poetry collections and is regarded as a pioneering classic in modern Indian English writing. [1]
E–K. Muzi Epifani (1935–1984), Italian writer and poet. Mary Eliza Fullerton (1868–1946), Australian feminist poet, short story writer, journalist and novelist. Alice Fulton (born 1952), American author, poet. Frances Dana Barker Gage (1808–1884), American writer, poet, reformer, feminist and abolitionist.
The Legend of Good Women is a poem in the form of a dream vision by Geoffrey Chaucer during the fourteenth century.. The poem is the third longest of Chaucer's works, after The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, and is possibly the first significant work in English to use the iambic pentameter or decasyllabic couplets which he later used throughout The Canterbury Tales.
Vittoria Colonna (April 1492 [1] – 25 February 1547), marchioness of Pescara, was an Italian noblewoman and poet. As an educated, married noblewoman whose husband was in captivity, Colonna was able to develop relationships within the intellectual circles of Ischia and Naples. Her early poetry began to attract attention in the late 1510s [2 ...