Download or read book Sappho written by Sappho and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1958 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Mary Barnard's translations are lean, incisive, direct--the best ever published. She has rendered the beloved poet's verses, long the bane of translators, more authentically than anyone else in English.