They were greatly influenced in their writing of this book by Henry Thornton Wharton
's recent Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation. Containing John Addington Symonds
' translation of Sappho
's...
Literary responses
Sappho
Henry Thornton Wharton
's Sappho
: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings offered the first English translation to render the object of desire in the Ode to Aphrodite as unambiguously female.
