Willis Barnstone has augmented his widely used anthology of the Greek lyric poets with eleven newly attributed Sappho poems, making this the most complete offering of Sappho in English. Two new sections — “Sources and Notes” and “Sappho: Her Life and Poems” — provide the student with the classical sources and an appraisal of this greatest of Western women poets.
Barnstone’s lucid, elegant translations include a representative sampling of all the significant Greek lyric poets, from Archilochus, in the seven…
