She also constructed the sentimental view of the mythic poetess and her milieu which Ms Gordon's biography has now so effectively dispelled.It is a rare thing for a literary biographer to take on a well-known poet and completely rewrite history.
That poetess, together with her contemporary Alcaeus, were the chief Doric poets of the pure Greek song.
In 1869 he married the princess Elizabeth of Wied, who later gained fame as the poetess Carmen Sylva.
Āṇṭāḷ (8th century), a Vaiṣṇava poetess, is literally love-sick for Krishna.
More or less contemporary were their Vaishnava counterparts, the Alvars Poykai, Putan, Peyar, and Tirumankaiyalvar; and in the 8th century the poetess Andal, as well as Periyalvar, Kulachekarar, Tiruppanalvar, and notably Nammalvar, who is held to be the greatest, composed their works.
Sir Walter Scott called her "the first poetess of romantic fiction," and her many admirers included Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Christina Rossetti.
The earliest bhakti poets were the followers of Śiva, the Nāyaṉārs (Śiva Devotees), whose first representative was the poetess Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār, who called herself a pēy, or ghostly minion of Śiva, and sang ecstatically of his dances.
Exploring Anglo-Indian historical relations through the developing relationship between a British poetess and an Indian artist, the play took his career to the next level.
I referred to Vita Sackville-West as a "poetess".
Awed by the mix of myth and history, and by the cenotaph for the 16th-century English poetess who composed poems simultaneously in Latin and Greek I was beginning to think I had no awe left.
She thought of herself not as "a poetess, but…a poet," whose work "relates to general experience and the realities of the time".
