There are no great poetesses on the Roman roll of honour, while there are many on that of Greece.
Whether the character of these earlier poetesses was above reproach or not, it is certain that in the later days of Grecian civilization music was handed over to the most degraded classes.
Illustration] The Heavenly Poetesses In their bark of bamboo reeds The heavenly poetesses Float across the sky.
In no languages, save Greek and English, so far as we remember at present, have poetesses achieved special fame; and we think all competent judges will unhesitatingly rank Mrs. Browning as the Queen of song.
Poets and poetesses see farther than other people, feel more deeply, and utter what they see and feel better.
Cheikho's Poetesses of the Jahiliyya, in Arabic, Beirut, 1897).
Sidenote: CHANG KUO-PIN] Just as there have always been poetesses in China, so women are to be found in the ranks of Chinese playwrights.
These were P'ing and Yen, two young students in love with Shan and Leng, two young poetesses who charmed even more by their literary talent than by their fascinating beauty.
By the side of these two poets ranks Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, who shares, with Louise Labe and Marie de France, the first rank among the poetesses of her country.
Madame Deshoulieres, still more unjustly criticised by Boileau, is unquestionably one of the chief poetesses of France; indeed, with Louise Labe and Marceline Desbordes Valmore, she is almost the only one of importance.
When, however, we come to the earliest historic literature we find that famous poetesses abounded.
I have shown that in the earliest known ages of Greek literature poetesses abounded, and gained a high reputation.
Turning to Müller's work upon the Dorians, I find reference made to the amatory poetessesof Lesbos.
To a few fanatical admirers the scanty verse of Emily Bronte has seemed worthy of such high praise that only mass of work would appear to be wanting to put her in the first rank of poetesses if not of poets.
Indeed, though the English poetesses up to the time of Mrs. Browning cannot be said to have produced any work of absolute genius, they are certainly interesting figures, fascinating subjects for study.
Your Pastoral Poetesses may vent their Fancy in Rural Landskips, and place despairing Shepherds under silken Willows, or drown them in a Stream of Mohair.
The poets and poetesses of the AEgean Islands cultivated a rapid and effusive style, polishing their passionate stanzas so exquisitely that they well deserve the name of charms.
Before his twentieth year, Pindar returned to Thebes and took, it is said, instruction from the poetesses Myrtis and Corinna.
By a curious coincidence, the only poetesses of whose work we have any record are both named Sulpicia.
The poetessesof the Arabs are numerous, and some of them hold a high rank.
The queen of Arabic poetesses is El Khunsa, who flourished in the days of Mohammed.
Well may England be proud of such poetesses as she can now boast!
The collection was formed entirely of works of British and American poetesses and female dramatic writers.
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