She was admired in her own time and she was considered to be one of the nine canonical lyric poets of Ancient Greece. She was a Greek poet who was born on the Isle of Lesbos in around 630 BC (or BCE) but no one really knows when she was born or when she died. I’m just going to do a quick introduction to Sappho in case you’ve never heard of her. I own 12 Little Black Classics and I have previously reviewed A Pair of Silk Stockings and A Slip Under the Microscope, both of which are collections of short stories. Penguin seems to be adding more to the collection all the time in a bid to make this type of literature more accessible. They’re very inexpensive, usually only 80p in the UK and I genuinely believe that there’s one to suit everyone’s taste. Penguin’s Little Black Classic editions are usually short stories, poetry collections, or fragments of larger works. ‘Yes, we did many things, then – all Beautiful…’ (Sappho: c.630-570 BCE) Summary: Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, sun-soaked Greece and the gods.
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