Poems of Sappho

This new edition reintroduces Sappho to the modern reader, providing a vivid contemporary translation that captures the sparseness and intensity of Sappho's line. Previous translations have suffered from the inclusion of the translator's own added lines. In Professor Barnstone's brilliant translation, Sappho's work is presented as we have inherited it, in its frank and unromantic idiom that rejects sentimentality and "prettiness." This edition reintroduces the modern reader to Sappho, providing a vivid, contemporary translation that captures the sparseness and intensity of Sappho's line.