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Sapphic ode

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Sapphic ode
n
(Literature / Poetry) another term for Horatian ode
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Noun1.Sapphic ode - an ode with several stanzas
ode - a lyric poem with complex stanza forms


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``Cecilia Bartoli: The Passion of Song,'' by Kim Chernin with Renate Stendhal, is a work of diva-worship brought to the highest pitch of silliness, far surpassing such other classics of the genre as ``The Rainbow Bridge'' (1954), the unconsciously Sapphic ode to the art of the legendary Wagnerian soprano Olive Fremstad by her secretary Mary Watkins Cushing.
Mary, Devon; an alumnus of Christ's Hospital who in 1791 had entered Jesus College, Cambridge as a sizar; in 1792 had won the Browne Gold Medal for a Sapphic ode on the slave trade; and in 1793 had been runner-up for the Craven Scholarship won by that Samuel Butler who was to become headmaster of Shrewsbury, Bishop of Lichfield, and grandfather of the acerbic author of Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh.
 
 
 
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