![]() ![]() The rest of us will have to rely on Carson for that echo, which isn't a bad substitute. ![]() Greek texts printed on facing pages allow readers familiar with ancient Aolic Greek pronunciation, lucky things, to catch an echo of the sound. She described moments of touching intimacy with a child, a lover or a goddess, using ordinary images–a violet, a star, the piercing voice of a bird–to carry extraordinary emotion. For centuries hers was the most admired (and at times the only) female voice that could be heard singing of love…She wrote with passion about the transports of love and worship. “However little remains of Sappho's work, the thought of her shone down the millennia, illuminating the work of other poets. ![]()
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