Muses

• “Apparently the New Orleans pronunciation of the names of the Muses is much closer to an Anglicized (or more accurately, as you said, "New Orleansized") version of the French than it is to any adaptation directly from the classical Greek pronunciation.”

  Your Right Hand Thief

• “Her fanciful reference to the powerful but imaginary "virgin Muses" (l. 41) is framed by the all too practical references in ll. 40 and 42, which remind us that in early modern culture, a "virgin" was first and foremost an unattached and thus relatively powerless woman.”

  My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem

• “She expresses affection for the "virgin Muses" while also accepting the need to marry.”

  My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem

• “Did I tell you of her before, and how she is the niece of Lord Cork, and poetess by grace of certain Irish Muses?”

  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• “Although Moulsworth professes "love" for the "virgin Muses" (l. 41), she also realizes that too exclusive a devotion to them would have left her "a virgin to this houre" (l.”

  My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem

• “[I] t was fabled by the poets that the Muses were the daughters of Jove and Memory.”

  Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

• “Though their parentage is uncertain, most stories hold that the Muses were the daughters of Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, and Zeus.”

  Goddess Inspiration Oracle: the Muses | the blog of author, illustrator and designer Kris Waldherr

• “The all woman crew called Muses picked a super hero theme for their float this year.”

  CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2007

• “I'm a lieutenant in Muses, which is a huge women's organization here.”

  CNN Transcript Feb 28, 2006

• “Muses, that is to say, the nine noble and royal disciplines.”

  The Golden Asse

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