Author:Sappho

Sappho
(7th century BCE – c. 570 BCE)

Sappho

Works

Poems

• "A Girl in Love", translated by Thomas Moore (1902)
• "Hymn to Venus", Fr. 1 (multiple English translations exist)
• "Inter Ignes Luna Minores", translated by Edwin Arnold (1902)
• "One Girl", translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1902)
• "Song of the Rose", translated by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1851)
• To a Loved One

  "A Fragment of Sappho", translated by Ambrose Philips (1748)

  "To a Loved One", translated by Ambrose Philips (1902)

• "To an uncultured Lesbian Woman", translated by John Addington Symonds (1902)
• "To Evening", translated by William Hyde Appleton (1902)

Compilations

• The Works of Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus and Musaeus, translated by Francis Fawkes (1760) IA
• Sappho: memoir, text, selected renderings and a literal translation, by Henry Thornton Wharton (1887) IA
• "Sappho", in Masterpieces of Greek Literature, edited by John Henry Wright (1902)
• Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics, reconstructed in translation by Bliss Carman (1903) IA
• Sappho and the Vigil of Venus, translated by Arthur S. Way (1920)
• The Poems of Sappho, by Edwin Marion Cox (1924)

Works about Sappho

Books

• "The Æolic school of lyric poetry", Chapter XIII. §§ 6–10. in History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, to the period of Isocrates, by K. O. Müller, translated by George Cornewall Lewis, 1847.
• “Sappho” from Chapter XXV of The Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch, 1855.
• Sappho and the Sapphic Metre in English, by Edwin Marion Cox (1916)
• The Poems of Sappho, by Edwin Marion Cox (1924)

Encyclopedia articles

• “Sappho”, by Philip Smith in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.
• "Sappho," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Sappho," by John Arthur Platt in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Sappho," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Sappho," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)

Poems

• "Sappho", a poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, first published 1822 as Poetic Sketch, Second Series—Sketch the First.
• “Sappho” from Helen of Troy and Other Poems by Sara Teasdale (1911)
• “Sappho” from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale (1915)
• “To Sappho Dead” a poem from Poems, Volume I, by Florence Earle Coates (1916)
• “Sappho” a poem from Poems, Volume II, by Florence Earle Coates (1916)
• “To a Song of Sappho Discovered in Egypt” a poem from Fiddler's Farewell, by Leonora Speyer (1926)
• “Sappho” by Christina Rossetti
• “The Last Song of Sappho” by Felicia Hemans
• “A Modern Sappho” by Matthew Arnold