Sappho in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

Sian Lewis
Thursday 12 August 2021

by Barbara Goff and Katherine Harloe

Abstract: This chapter examines the Anglophone receptions of Sappho’s poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, examining figures such as Harriette Andreadis, Margaret Goldsmith, Lawrence Durrell, Peter Green, Denys Page, Erica Jong, Michael Field (Katharine Bradley/Edith Cooper), Richard Aldington, Ezra Pound, H.D., Mary Barnard, Jeannette Winterson, Judy Grahn, Anne Carson, Josephine Balmer, and Diane Rayor.

Chapter in The Cambridge Companion to Sappho, edited by Patrick J. Finglass and Adrian Kelly, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 390-407.

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