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Poems / Fragments of Sappho (c. 7th–6th c. BCE) Inferred

Sappho (c. 630–c. 570 BCE) · c. 7th–6th c. BCE

InferredFuller names Sappho explicitly and at length, referring both to the fragments of her poetry (read by 'the youth here by my side') and to a 'recluse of high powers' who devotes himself to studying Sappho's thought. The passage also contains an oblique allusion to Abelard as the kind of understanding friend Sappho never had (contrasted with Sappho's actual 'master').

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Documented 1845

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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“Sappho Eloisa / The names are of threadbare celebrity. [...] The youth here by my side cannot be weary of the fragments from the life of Sappho.”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

Inferred Fuller names Sappho explicitly and at length, referring both to the fragments of her poetry (read by 'the youth here by my side') and to a 'recluse of high powers' who devotes himself to studying Sappho's thought. The passage also contains an oblique allusion to Abelard as the kind of understanding friend Sappho never had (contrasted with Sappho's actual 'master').