![]() ![]() Eliot, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Lowell and Lord Byron either translated her work, or wrote poems in response to hers, so she has been (and remains) obviously influential. Most of Sappho's poetry has been lost, but her reputation has endured through surviving fragments, many of them fleshed out by other poets who sought to "fill in the blanks." (Of the 189 known fragments of her work, twenty contain just one readable word, thirteen have only two, and nearly half have ten or fewer.) Major poets like Ben Jonson, T. It is because of the homoerotic nature of some of Sappho's poems that "lesbian" and "sapphic" have their current sexual denotations and connotations. “She is a mortal marvel,” wrote Antipater of Sidon, before proceeding to catalog the Seven Wonders of the World. opens Carsons book, and it appears in Fragment 130, Sapphos. Anne Carson - If Not, Winter: Fragments Of Sappho, Paperback - From the critically acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson: a brilliant new translation of. Cicero mentioned that a statue of her stood in the town hall of Syracuse, so she was famous in her own day, or not long thereafter. I read Anne Carsons acclaimed 1986 book Eros the Bittersweet for the first time only when. According to the Parian Marble, Sappho was exiled to Sicily sometime between 604 and 594. ![]() Sappho was born on the island of Lesbos around 620 BC. One of the best and most famous lyric poets of antiquity was a woman, Sappho. ![]()
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