What We Know of Sappho by Judith Schalansky
Literature, Writing
Submitted by
akarra
"We know nothing. Not much, at any rate. In total, all the poems and fragments that have reached us add up to no more than six hundred lines." This essay on Sappho, an excerpt from a book, is poetic and marvelous in its own right. It not only covers related history, but tackles the misogyny confronting her throughout the ages.