The object of this book is to provide with a popular and a
comprehensive edition of Sappho, containing all that is so far
known of her unique personality and her incompatible poems Little
remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl.
late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is said to
have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria
some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts consist of a
lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry--among them,
poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, resignation, and
remembrance--that nevertheless enables us to hear the living voice
of the poet Plato called the tenth Muse. Sappho is rated as the
supreme poetess and is regarded in the same vein as Shakespeare and
Homer the supreme poets.
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