Sappho

The Poems of Sappho

Sappho?s thrilling lyric verse has been unremittingly popular for more than 2,600 years?certainly a record for poetry of any kind?and love for her art only increases as time goes on. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems, her mystique endures to be discovered anew by each generation, and to inspire new efforts at bringing the spirit of her Greek words faithfully into English.--(Text refers to a previous edition)