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  • Chapter 15 - Long Ago

  • from Part III - In the Name of Time
  • Edited by Sarah Parker, Loughborough University
  • Book:
    Michael Field in Context
    Published online:
    03 October 2025
    Print publication:
    25 September 2025, pp 135-143

  • Summary

    This chapter considers Michael Field’s Long Ago (1889), a volume of lyric poems inspired by the Ancient Greek poet Sappho. In these poems, Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper respond to Henry Thornton Wharton’s Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation (1885) by forging a creative-critical experiment, attempting to communicate the experience of reading Sappho by using Sapphic fragments (in Greek) as epigraphs and embedding them (in English) in original lyrics. The chapter analyses several poems from Long Ago to show how Michael Field enter into dialogue with Sappho’s voice, enabling them to express their admiration for Sappho’s work, but also to generate their own lyric voice and to forge subtle links between Hellenism and homosexuality, reflecting their own complex identity.