Who is Sappho from Eros the Bittersweet and what is their importance? Eros_the_Bittersweet English & Literature Sappho | Eros the Bittersweet

An Ancient Greek poet, born between 630 and 612 B.C. whose poems are left only to modernity in the form of fragments. Carson finds the theme of Eros's bittersweet quality in Sappho's Fragment 31 which she analyzes in detail.