title: Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments (Penguin Classics)
author:  Sappho 
description: <b>Sappho </b>was born sometime between 630 and 617 BCE and died around 570. Little of certainty is known about her life. A native of the island of Lesbos, she resided in its largest city, Mytilene. She composed songs for choral and solo performance on a wide range of themes but is best known for amatory songs focusing on adolescent females. She is renowned as the first woman poet in literary history, and her songs have been universally admired throughout antiquity and modernity. <br /><br /><b>Aaron Poochigian</b> was born in 1973. He was a visiting professor of Classics at the University of Utah and is currently D.L. Jordon Fellow at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. His poems and translations have appeared in a number of journals, including <i>Chimaera</i>, <i>Classical Journal,</i> and <i>Unsplendid</i>. <br /><br /><b>Carol Ann Duffy</b>'s poetry has received every major award in Britain, including the Whitbread and the Forward prized for Mean Time and the T.S. Eliot Award for Rapture. In the United States, she has received the E.M. Forster and Lannan Awards. She has also written extensively for children and has editied many anthologies.
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  # Table of Contents
  
  [Title Page](titlepage.xml)
  
  
  [Table of Contents](toc.xml)
  
  
  [Copyright](front01.xml)
  
  
  [1\. Baudolino tries his hand at writing](c01.xml)
  
  
  [2\. Baudolino meets Niketas Choniates](c02.xml)
  
  
  [3\. Baudolino explains to Niketas what he wrote as a boy](c03.xml)
  
  
  [4\. Baudolino talks with the emperor and falls in love with the
  empress](c04.xml)
  
  
  [5\. Baudolino gives Frederick some wise advice](c05.xml)
  
  
  [6\. Baudolino goes to Paris](c06.xml)
  
  
  [7\. Baudolino makes the Poet write love letters and poems to
  Beatrice](c07.xml)
  
  
  [8\. Baudolino in the Earthly Paradise](c08.xml)
  
  
  [9\. Baudolino upbraids the emperor and seduces the empress](c09.xml)
  
  
  [10\. Baudolino finds the Magi and canonizes Charlemagne](c10.xml)
  
  
  [11\. Baudolino constructs a palace for Prester John](c11.xml)
  
  
  [12\. Baudolino writes the letter of Prester John](c12.xml)
  
  
  [13\. Baudolino sees the birth of a new city](c13.xml)
  
  
  [14\.