Mary Barnard

| birth_date = December 6, 1909 | birth_place = Vancouver, Washington, U.S. | death_date = }} Mary Ethel Barnard (December 6, 1909 – August 25, 2001) was an American poet, biographer and Greek-to-English translator. She is known for her elegant rendering of the works of Sappho, a translation which has never gone out of print.

''Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship'', Issue 94, was exclusively dedicated to her work and her correspondence with Pound. Barnard won a Levinson Award of Poetry from Poetry Magazine in 1935, and an Elliston Award for her ''Collected Poems'', a Western States Book Award in 1986, (for ''Time and the White Tigress''). Among other honors were: the Washington State Governor's Award for achievement in the literary arts, and the May Sarton Award for Poetry from the New England Poetry Club in 1987. Provided by Wikipedia