Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet by Philip Freeman

Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet

Philip Freeman

336 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography history poetry challenging reflective medium-paced
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For more than twenty-five centuries, all that the world knew of the poems of Sappho—the first woman writer in literary history—were a few brief quotations preserved by ancient male authors. Yet those meager remains showed such power and genius tha...

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