Sappho

The screen of history, like the taste of politicians, churchmen and university presidents, has been programmatic. So we have a large collection of Aristotle’s lecture notes on politics and ethics, and we have only random fragments of Sappho’s poems. --Kenneth Rexroth, Sappho, Poems, Classics Revisited (1968)


Recommended reading:
by Sappho at Reading Rat


Criticism (articles, essays, reviews):

A leap too far: Margaret Reynolds is not convinced by Sappho's Leap, Erica Jong's feminist take on a classical poet, Guardian, November 13, 2004

Lady of Lesbos: Poet, courtesan, bisexual, victim: Emily Wilson looks beyond the labels for the essence of Sappho, review of If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, by Anne Carson Virago, The Sappho History, by Margaret Reynolds Palgrave, Sappho's Leap, by Erica Jong, London Review of Books, February 2, 2004

Always the Bridesmaid, review by Terry Castle of Victorian Sappho, by Yopie Prins, London Review of Books, September 30, 1999