Women Poets

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“The women that I picked spoke sweet and low
And yet gave tongue. “Hound voices” were they all.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient.... They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.”
—Strabo (c. 58 B.C.–c. 24 A.D., Greek geographer. Geographia, bk. 1, sct. 2, subsct. 8.