“The brief, crisp lyrics of the Sappho volume almost certainly contributed to the aesthetic and practice of Imagism.”
  — D. M. R. Bentley, Minor Poets of a Superior Order

First published in 1904, Carman’s translation, which involved imagining greater poems from fragments, was an influential volume on modernist poets. The “brief, crisp lyrics,” without ornament, as D. M. R. Bentley, Professor in Canadian Literature at the University of Western Ontario, believes “almost certainly contributed to the aesthetic and practice of Imagism.” New impression, a fine copy in a lightly worn dust-jacket with an unfortunate stain to front cover. With an unascribed Christmas letter laid-in.