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Availability:In StockContributor:Sappho, Mary Barnard (Translator), Dudley Fitts (Foreword by)Series:World Literature in TranslationPublish date:2019-05-07Pages:128
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520305564ISBN-10:520305566UPC:9780520305564Book Category:Poetry, Literary Collections, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ancient & Classical, EuropeanSize:7.70 x 4.90 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCFY5P6JB5
Sappho: A New Translation
These 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.
Series: World Literature in Translation
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520305564ISBN-10:520305566UPC:9780520305564Book Category:Poetry, Literary Collections, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ancient & Classical, EuropeanSize:7.70 x 4.90 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCFY5P6JB5
Mary Barnard (1909-2001) was a prominent American poet, translator, and biographer with many books in her repertoire. She studied Greek at Reed College and began to translate at Ezra Pound's suggestion in the 1930s. Her Assault on Mount Helicon: A Literary Memoir was published by the University of California Press in 1984. Two years later she received the Western States Book Award for her...
Publisher: University of California Press
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Sappho, Mary Barnard (Translator), Dudley Fitts (Foreword by)
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