Sappho (b. 612 B.C.), a lyric poet whose work exists only in fragments, was called the “tenth muse” by some classical writers.
Married, she lived in Lesbos and led a group of women who were devoted to music and poetry.
Archibald Macleish (1892-1982) said, “A poem should not mean/But be” in Ars Poetica.
The name of Miss Havisham’s house in Dickens’s Great Expectations is Satis House.
The names of the three tragedies in Aeschylus’s Oresteia are: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides, all first presented in 458 B.C.
Charlotte Bronte’s close friend, novelist Elizabeth Gaskell wrote The Life of Charlotte Bronte. The two met in 1850; Bronte died five years later.
In an 1895 article in North American Review, Twain said that James Fenimore Cooper violated 18 of the 19 rules for romantic fiction in The Deer-slayer. On one page alone, Cooper is said to have scored a record-breaking 114 offenses out of a possible 115. Some of the rules Cooper broke included: — “That a…
Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem” (1951) refers to a “raisin in the sun”. Hughes asks: “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”