The Nine Muses

The Nine Muses

:"For the mythological figures, see Muse. "The Nine Muses" may also refer to nine letters written by Aeschines, or [http://www.wheatlandpress.com/nine/index.html a recent anthology] ."

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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 pseudonymously. The contributors were English women writers, each of whom signed their poems with the names of 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.), Sarah Fyge Egerton ("Erato", "Euterpe", and "Terpsichore"), Mary Pix ("Clio"), Catherine Trotter ("Calliope"), and Sarah Piers ("Urania"). The poet writing as "Polyhymnia" has not been accurately identified.

References

*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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