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Article on Sappho in WOOL-GATHERER 3:
‘Always Read the Wrapping Paper...’: new discoveries in a poem by Sappho.
Extract:
"...Sappho still haunts people two-and-a-half millennia on. The Greeks were champion chauvinists - at least Islamic culture has produced many tender love-lyrics - but even they recognised that she was a master. Everyone who discovers her soon discovers the melancholy fact that her collected works ran to nine volumes in the library at Alexandria, and now there are only glittering shards..."
FULL CONTENTS OF WOOL-GATHERER 3:
‘Hi-ho, Hi-ho, it’s off to t’Workhouse we go’: early model factories in literature – John Dyer and Thomas Deloney.
‘The Universal Dartboard’: Heaven as a series of concentric circles – Andreas Capellanus, Dante and the Monk of Evesham.
‘They Bisect Horses, Don’t They?’: from Sir Ywain to Baron Munchausen to Alice in Wonderland...
‘The Cricket Test’: observations on a poem by Christine Evans.
‘Universal Export: Still a Good Investment?’: James Bond examined; cheating at cards down the ages.
‘Always Read the Wrapping Paper...’: new discoveries in a poem by Sappho.
‘It’s the Way they Tell em’: the connection between Sherlock Holmes, Les Dawson and modern inarticulacy.
‘Chez Nous’: Shakespeare’s problem with an invasion of England in King Lear.
‘Treating those Two Impostors Just the Same?’: Tom Stoppard’s Professional Foul and the changing British psyche.
‘Oh no, Miss, not The Waste Land again’: problems of literature syllabuses in schools.
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