Sappho: The Tenth Muse
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Preface
By Michael R. Burch
Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine;
A tenth is Lesbian Sappho, maid divine.
—Plato, translated by Lord Neaves
Was Sappho the first great Romantic poet, more than two thousand years before Blake, Burns, Byron, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats? Was sh…
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