Poems & Fragments: Second, Expanded Edition - Paperback
by Sappho
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Availability:In StockContributor:Sappho, Josephine Balmer (Translator)Publish date:2018-08-16Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloodaxe BooksISBN-13:9781780374574ISBN-10:1780374577UPC:9781780374574Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC4PZNS8SB
Poems & Fragments: Second, Expanded Edition
This second, expanded edition of Josephine Balmer's classic translation of the Greek poet Sappho has new, recently-discovered fragments, including the Brothers Poem, the Kypris Song and the Cologne Fragment. In a new essay on these additions she discusses the issues raised in the translating - and in some cases retranslating - of these fragmentary and ever-shifting texts. Poems & Fragments is...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloodaxe BooksISBN-13:9781780374574ISBN-10:1780374577UPC:9781780374574Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC4PZNS8SB
The Greek poet Sappho is one of the greatest poets in classical literature. Her lyric poetry is among the finest ever written, and although little of her work has survived and little is known about her, she is regarded not just as one of the greatest women poets, but often as the greatest woman poet in world literature. She lived on the island of Lesbos around 600 BC and even in her lifetime, her...
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