In 1880 Robinson met historian and critic John Addington Symonds
. Symonds was apparently quite taken by her intelligence and beauty, possibly to the point of infatuation. He had strong reservations about her friendship with...
Reception
Sappho
Among the earliest of Sappho
's translators into English was Anne Finch
; among recent translators is Mary Barnard
, 1958. Stevie Smith
declined to take her on. Finch chose to render not a love-poem...