Meaning of Corinna | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An ancient Greek poetess.
   historical
2. A locality in Circular Head council area, Waratah-Wynyard council area and the West Coast council area, north western Tasmania, Australia.
3. A female given name from Ancient Greek.

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“During this period he became acquainted with the poetess Corinna, who was likewiſe a ſtudent under Myrtis, and, Pauſanias ſays, was one of the moſt beautiful women of her time.”

“The most renowned poetess of ancient Greece, after Sappho, was Corinna, who came from a town in Boeotia named Tanagra.”

“[…]it may not be going too far, in other words, to characterize Corinna's poetry as significantly "woman-identified," to use Rayor's term.”

“1601, Thomas Campion, When to Her Lute Corinna Sings, A Book of Ayres, 2006, Jay Parini (editor), The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry, page 614, When to her lute Corinna sings, / Her voice revives the leaden strings,”

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