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'''''The Nine Muses, Or, Poems Written by Nine severall Ladies Upon the death of the late Famous [[John Dryden]], Esq.''''' (London: Richard Basset, 1700) was an [[elegiac]] volume of [[poetry]] published [[Pen name|pseudonymously]]. The contributors were English women writers, each of whom signed their poems with the name of one of the [[Muse]]s. The collection was edited by [[Delarivier Manley]] (who wrote as "[[Melpomene]]" and "[[Thalia (muse)|Thalia]]") and includes pieces by [[Susanna Centlivre]] ("perhaps," according to Blain et al.),<ref>Blain, Virginia, et al. ''[[The Feminist Companion to Literature in English|The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present]]''. New Haven/London: Yale UP, 1990.</ref> [[Sarah Fyge Egerton]] ("[[Erato]]", "[[Euterpe]]", and "[[Terpsichore]]"), [[Mary Pix]] ("[[Clio]]"), [[Catherine Trotter]] ("[[Calliope]]"), and [[Sarah Piers]] ("[[Urania]]"). The poet writing as "Polimnia" (the Muse of Rhetorick) has not been identified; her initials are "Mrs. D. E." |
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*Transcription of ''The Nine muses, or, Poems written by nine several ladies upon the death of the late famous John Dryden, Esq'' (1700) ([https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/bitstream/handle/20.500.12024/A52350/A52350.html?sequence=5 Oxford Text Archive]) |
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==Notes== |
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*Blain, Virginia, et al. ''[[The Feminist Companion to Literature in English|The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present]]''. New Haven/London: Yale UP, 1990. |
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*Buck, Claire, ed. ''The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature''. New York: Prentice Hall, 1992. 862–863. |
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*Medoff, Jeslyn. "New Light on Sarah Fyge (Field, Egerton)." ''Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature'' 1.2. (Autumn 1982):155-175. |
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*"Urania: The Divine Muse. On the Death of John Dryden, Esq. By the Honourable the Lady P[iers]." ''Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Women's Verse''. Germaine Greer et al., eds. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1988. 448–451. |
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The muses were the Goddesses of the Arts and and were also the daughters of Zeus (the central god of the Greek pantheon) and Mnemosyne (the personification of memory). They spent nine nights together and that is how the muses were created. |
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* Clio the muse of history |
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* Euterpe the muse of flute and musical instruments |
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* Thalia the muse of comedy and science |
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* Melpomene the muse of tragedy |
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* Terpsichore the muse of dance and poetry |
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* Erato the muse of the lyre and love poetry |
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* Urania the muse of astronomy |
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* Polyhymnia the muse of sacred songs and the art of mimic |
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* Calliope the muse of epic poetry and eloquence, and the superior muse. |
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Latest revision as of 00:22, 13 September 2024
The Nine Muses, Or, Poems Written by Nine severall Ladies Upon the death of the late Famous John Dryden, Esq. (London: Richard Basset, 1700) was an elegiac volume of poetry published pseudonymously. The contributors were English women writers, each of whom signed their poems with the name of one of the Muses. The collection was edited by Delarivier Manley (who wrote as "Melpomene" and "Thalia") and includes pieces by Susanna Centlivre ("perhaps," according to Blain et al.),[1] Sarah Fyge Egerton ("Erato", "Euterpe", and "Terpsichore"), Mary Pix ("Clio"), Catherine Trotter ("Calliope"), and Sarah Piers ("Urania"). The poet writing as "Polimnia" (the Muse of Rhetorick) has not been identified; her initials are "Mrs. D. E."
Etext
[edit]- Transcription of The Nine muses, or, Poems written by nine several ladies upon the death of the late famous John Dryden, Esq (1700) (Oxford Text Archive)
Notes
[edit]- ^ Blain, Virginia, et al. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. New Haven/London: Yale UP, 1990.
References
[edit]- Blain, Virginia, et al. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. New Haven/London: Yale UP, 1990.
- Buck, Claire, ed. The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature. New York: Prentice Hall, 1992. 862–863.
- Medoff, Jeslyn. "New Light on Sarah Fyge (Field, Egerton)." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 1.2. (Autumn 1982):155-175.
- "Urania: The Divine Muse. On the Death of John Dryden, Esq. By the Honourable the Lady P[iers]." Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Women's Verse. Germaine Greer et al., eds. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1988. 448–451.
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