The ancient world revered Sappho's poetry. Today, her work survives only in fragments. Canada's poet laureate, Bliss Carman loved those fragments. In the late V

The essays in this volume review the seemingly endless permutations wrought on Sappho through centuries of readings and re-writings.

The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinemen