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The Complete Poems of Sappho

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Availability:In StockContributor:Willis Barnstone (Editor)Publish date:2009-03-10Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:ShambhalaISBN-13:9781590306130ISBN-10:1590306139UPC:9781590306130Book Category:Poetry, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient & Classical, Ancient and Classical, Women AuthorsSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SC71KAXN4M

The Complete Poems of Sappho

A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet--with a wealth of materials for understanding her work--by a prize-winning poet and translator

Sappho's thrilling lyric verse has been unremittingly popular for more than 2,600 years--certainly a record for poetry of any kind--and love for her art only increases as time goes on. Though her extant work consists only of a collection...
Language:EnglishPublisher:ShambhalaISBN-13:9781590306130ISBN-10:1590306139UPC:9781590306130Book Category:Poetry, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient & Classical, Ancient and Classical, Women AuthorsSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SC71KAXN4M
Born in Lewiston, Maine, Willis Barnstone was educated at Bowdoin, Columbia, the Sorbonne, and Yale. He taught in Greece at the end of the Civil War (1949-51), and in Buenos Aires during the Dirty War. During the Cultural Revolution he went to China where he was later a Fulbright Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University (1984-85). Former O'Connor Professor of Greek at Colgate University,...
Publisher: Shambhala

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