If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho / Translated by Anne Carson. - Hardcover

Sappho; Carson, Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375410678 ISBN 13: 9780375410673

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 2002

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Book by Sappho

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A critically acclaimed poet and classicist presents a dramatic new translation of the poetry of Sappho, presenting all the extant fragments that exist of the ancient poet's works in both English and the original Greek and furnishing an incisive introduction to Sappho's life and times. 12,500 first printing.

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edition of the work of the Greek poet Sappho, in a new translation by Anne Carson.

Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos from about 630 b.c. She was a musical genius who devoted her life to composing and performing songs. Of the nine books of lyrics Sappho is said to have composed, none of the music is extant and only one poem has survived complete. All the rest are fragments. In If Not, Winter Carson presents all of Sappho’s fragments in Greek and in English. Brackets and space give the reader a sense of what is absent as well as what is present on the papyrus. Carson’s translation illuminates Sappho’s reflections on love, desire, marriage, exile, cushions, bees, old age, shame, time, chickpeas and many other aspects of the human situation.

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• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375410678
• ISBN 13: 9780375410673
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 397