Sappho and the Sapphic Metre in English
Author: Edwin Marion Cox
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 28
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Author: Edwin Marion Cox
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sappho
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Myers O'Hara
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sappho
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-09-03
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1351239082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe object of this book is to provide with a popular and a comprehensive edition of Sappho, containing all that is so far known of her unique personality and her incompatible poems Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry--among them, poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, resignation, and remembrance--that nevertheless enables us to hear the living voice of the poet Plato called the tenth Muse. Sappho is rated as the supreme poetess and is regarded in the same vein as Shakespeare and Homer the supreme poets.
Author: Sappho
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Published: 2018-02-15
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 048681727X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Tenth Muse" sings to both sexes of desire, rapture, and sorrow. This concise collection of the ancient Greek poet's surviving works was assembled and translated by a distinguished classicist.
Author: Sappho
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2019-05-07
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 0520305566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Mary Barnard's translations are lean, incisive, direct—the best ever published. She has rendered the beloved poet's verses, long the bane of translators, more authentically than anyone else in English.
Author: Sappho
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2012-06
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 0520272935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Mary Barnard's translations are lean, incisive, direct—the best ever published. She has rendered the beloved poet's verses, long the bane of translators, more authentically than anyone else in English.
Author: Sappho
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2010-01-28
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1616141050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCalled the "Tenth Muse" by the ancients, Greece's greatest female lyric poet Sappho (ca. 610-580 B.C.E.) spent the majority of her life on the famed island of Lesbos. Passionate and breathtaking, her poems survive only in fragments, following religious conspiracies to silence her. This excellent translation includes Roche's brilliant essay, "Portrait of Sappho". Illustrations.
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13: 1410340732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jeffrey M. Duban
Publisher: CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
Published: 2016-08-23
Total Pages: 832
ISBN-13: 1905570805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHailed by Plato as the “Tenth Muse” of ancient Greek poetry, Sappho is inarguably antiquity’s greatest lyric poet. Born over 2,600 years ago on the Greek island of Lesbos, and writing amorously of women and men alike, she is the namesake lesbian. What’s left of her writing, and what we know of her, is fragmentary. Shrouded in mystery, she is nonetheless repeatedly translated and discussed – no, appropriated – by all. Sappho has most recently undergone a variety of treatments by agenda-driven scholars and so-called poet-translators with little or no knowledge of Greek. Classicist-translator Jeffrey Duban debunks the postmodernist scholarship by which Sappho is interpreted today and offers translations reflecting the charm and elegant simplicity of the originals. Duban provides a reader-friendly overview of Sappho’s times and themes, exploring her eroticism and Greek homosexuality overall. He introduces us to Sappho’s highly cultured island home, to its lyre-accompanied musical legends, and to the fabled beauty of Lesbian women. Not least, he emphasizes the proximity of Lesbos to Troy, making the translation and enjoyment of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey a further focus. More than anything else, argues Duban, it is free verse and its rampant legacy – and no two persons more than Walt Whitman and Ezra Pound – that bear responsibility for the ruin of today’s classics in translation, to say nothing of poetry in the twentieth century. Beyond matters of reflection for classicists, Duban provides a far-ranging beginner’s guide to classical literature, with forays into Spenser and Milton, and into the colonial impulse of Virgil, Spenser, and the West at large.