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Top Poets · 1. Maya Angelou (1928-2014) · 2. Shel Silverstein (1930-1999) · 3. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) · 4. Langston Hughes (1901-1967) · 5.
Stung with Love
Only a few of her poems survived intact, including her most famous, “Ode to Aphrodite,” and another that was discovered in 2014 dubbed “Brothers Poem.” Most of her work focused on love and religion, and she’s revered for her sharp imagery. Though her people exiled her to Sicily, the Hellenistic Alexandria scholars dubbed her one of the Nine Lyric Poets. Legend has it she killed herself because she couldn’t be with the man she loved—but her writings about “loving women” coined the term “sapphic” and have made her a lesbian icon. You can read Sappho’s work in the books <anchor>Stung with Love</anchor> and If Not, Winter, available from publisher Penguin Random House.
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# Stung with Love

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## By [Sappho](/authors/55468/sappho)  Introduction by Carol Ann Duffy  Translated by Aaron Poochigian

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## About Stung with Love

More or less 150 years after Homer’s _Iliad_, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry—among them poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, resignation and remembrance—that nevertheless enables us to hear the living voice of the poet Plato called the tenth Muse. This is a new translation of her surviving poetry.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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