SAPPHO
Sappho of Lesbos. By Margaret Gold-, smith. Rich and Cowan. 277 pp. (10/6 net) Through Whjtcombe hhd Tombs Ltd.' Miss Goldsmith’s history of Sappho of Lesbos includes translations of many of the fragments of the writings of this most famous of women poets. But, as Miss Goldsmith herself says, few facts are known about Sappho, and her biography is necessarily largely imaginative. “This,” she says, “is a psychological biography written by a layman for laymen, and not % dissertation written for classical scholars.” The author explains also that she has not adopted any of the moral prejudices against Sappho which caused the Church, many centuries after her death, to ’burn as many of her poems as possible. This, of course, becomes clear to anyone who reads the book. ,
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22419, 4 June 1938, Page 18
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