A review by the_bookish_kat
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments by Sappho

5.0

I stumbled across Sappho’s poems on Instagram as someone posted this book and I loved the cover. I had never heard of Sappho before, but she was an Archaic Greek poet whose work has been largely lost. She was considered one of the greatest lyrical poets of her time, and it’s a shame that what survives are mostly fragments of her work because I loved the poetry in this book as it was poignant and beautiful. I found it very helpful that there were comments by the translator before each poem to give more context. I would highly recommend reading this book and it’s one that I’m very glad to have read.