Tuesday, 17 November 2020

Sappho's Leap

 

I write at some length about Sappho's supposed (apocryphal) suicide leap in my book, The Ionian Islands and Epirus, A Cultural History (pages 3-10). I discuss a number of poems on the subject and this 'landscape of the imagination'.

At the time of writing the book, I had not discovered the poem by Edwin Muir:





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