The Sappho Companion - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312295103 ISBN 13: 9780312295103

Verlag: St. Martin's Griffin, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Born around 630 BC on the Greek Island of Lesbos, Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. We see her image change, recreated in Ovid's poetry and Boccaccio's tales, in translations by Pope, Rossetti and Swinburne, Baudelaire, and H.D., in the modern versions of Eavan Boland, Carol Rumens, and Jeanette Winterson. Artists, too, have felt Sappho's power, and the, Companion contains a rich variety of illustrations: classical statues and pre-Raphaelite paintings, Roman mosaics, and Romantic pornography.

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Margaret Reynolds is a writer, teacher, critic, and broadcaster. Her 1992 edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: St. Martin's Griffin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0312295103
• ISBN 13: 9780312295103
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432
• Herausgeber: Reynolds Margaret
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