In 1761, Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of ...
A lush translation of this late-discovered lesbian poet added to the legacy of Sappho, but there was a trickster at work ...
THE subject which I have chosen for to-day’s lecture might seem to you rather remote from the topic of English literature, at least, from the topic of English literature as taught in Japan. Here the ...
"Lesbian" is a demonym for the inhabitants of the Greek island of Lesbos, so why does it today describe female homosexuality?