Sappho: Poems and Fragments
Sappho. Poems and Fragments. Translated, with an Introduction, by Guy Davenport. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1965.
"I have generally followed the text as given by Edgar Lobel and Denys Page, Poetarum Lesbiorum Fragmenta (Oxford, 1963), and am indebted to Professor Page's Sappho and Alcaeus (Oxford, 1959)." (Preface)
Dedication: for Mary Ann / In honor of her beauty, her clarity of heart, her love of tree, animal, child, and flower, in memory of her sojourn in Laurelindórinan, in the high meadows, these pages. Vale.
"Drawing by Guy Davenport" (dust jacket, rear inner fold)
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