The Sappho Companion

Margarett Reynolds has produced a remarkable anthology, bound together with vivid narrative accounts of the way different periods have taken up Sappho´s haunting story. We see her image change, re-created in Ovid´s poetry and Boccaccio´s tales, in translations by Pope, Rosetti and Swiburne, Baudelaire and H.D., in the modern versions of Eavan Boland, Ruth Padel and Jeanette Winterson. Contens: The fragments of Sappho; The tenth muse; The leraned lady; Nymphs and satyrs; Wanotn sapphoics; The sapphic sublime; Hellenism and heroes; The lady with the lyre; Daughter of de Sade; The new woman; Return to Mytilene; Modernist Sappho; Sapphistories, Swingers and sisters; Fragments