Library of Congress Catalog Card Number, which is 2006025662.  ABOUT AUTOGRAPH EDITIONS Autograph Editions is committed to bringing readers some of the best of fine quality contemporary literature in unique, beautifully designed books, many of them illustrated with original art specially created for each book. Each of our books aspires to be a work of art in itself—in both its content and its design. The press was established in 1975. Over the years Autograph Editions has published a variety of distinguished and widely commended books of fiction and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from the Past, by bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett, whose novel, When the Owl Cries, has been widely acclaimed by many authors, reviewers, and critics, among them James Michener, Pearl S. Buck, Ford Madox Ford, Charles Poore, James Purdy, Russell Kirk, Michael Fraenkel, and many others. EBOOK NOTICE I n addition to this book’s availability in a printed edition, the copyright holder has chosen to issue this work as an eBook through Public Domain Archive as a free open access publication under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license, which allows anyone to distribute this work without changes to its content, provided that both the author and the original URL from which this work was obtained are mentioned, that the contents of this work are not used for commercial purposes or profit, and that this work will not be used without the copyright holder’s written permission in derivative works (i.e., you may not alter, transform, or build upon this work without such permission). The full legal statement of this license may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcode SAPPHO’S JOURNAL BOOKS BY PAUL ALEXANDER BARTLETT NOVELS VOICES FROM THE PAST: Sappho’s Journal  Christ’s Journal  Leonardo da Vinci’s Journal Shakespeare’s Journal  Lincoln’s Journal When the Owl Cries Adiós Mi México Forward, Children! POETRY Wherehill Spokes for Memory NONFICTION The Haciendas of Mexico: An Artist’s Record SAPPHO’S JOURNAL by PAUL ALEXANDER BARTLETT and Illustrated by the Author Edited by STEVEN JAMES BARTLETT with a FOREWORD by WILLIS BARNSTONE “Violet-haired, pure honey-smiling Sappho” – Alcaeus AUTOGRAPH EDITIONS Salem, Oregon AUTOGRAPH EDITIONS P. O. Box 6141  Salem, Oregon 97304  Established 1975  This book is protected by copyright. No part may be reproduced in any manner without written permission from the publisher. Copyright © 2007 by Steven James Bartlett First Edition ISBN 978-0-6151-5646-0 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2006025662 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Bartlett, Paul Alexander. Sappho's journal / by Paul Alexander Bartlett and illustrated by the author ; edited by Steven James Bartlett ; with a foreword by Willis Barnstone. -- 1st ed. p. cm. Summary: "A historical novel that recounts the life, thought, and times of the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, based on a study of ancient Greece and Sappho's surviving fragments of poetry"--Provided by publisher. ISBN 978-0-6151-5646-0 1. Sappho--Fiction. I. Bartlett, Steven J. II. Title. PS3602.A8396S27 2006 813'.6--dc22 2006025662 CONTENTS FOREWORD by Willis Barnstone xi PREFACE by Steven James Bartlett xiii SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 1 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 151 COLOPHON 153 FOREWORD Willis Barnstone Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature Indiana University P aul Alexander Bartlett’s journal of Sappho is a masterful work. I had recently completed a translation of the extant lines of Sappho and am familiar with his problems. He was faced with the almost impossible task of reconstructing the personality of Sappho and her background in ancient Lesbos. To my happy surprise he did so, in a work which is at once poetic, dramatic and powerful. In...