Sappho and the Greek Lyric Poets: Including the Complete Poetry of Sappho - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805208313 ISBN 13: 9780805208313

Verlag: Schocken Books, 1988

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Gathers poems from the Greek, Roman, and Byzantine periods

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Willis Barnstone, Ph.D., former O'Connor Professor of Greek at Colgate University, is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and is in the Institute of Biblical and Literary Studies at Indiana University. A Guggenheim Fellow, poet, scholar, and memoirist, his many books include <i>The Poetics of Translation, The Other Bible, The New Covenant, With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires, Life Watch, </i>and<i> Border of a Dream: The Poems of Antonio Machado. </i>He has received numerous awards for his work, among them the Emily Dickinson Award, the W. H. Auden Award, and a PEN/Book-of-the-Month-Club Special Citation for translation.

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tone has augmented his widely used anthology of the Greek lyric poets with eleven newly attributed Sappho poems, making this the most complete offering of Sappho in English. Two new sections -- "Sources and Notes" and "Sappho: Her Life and Poems" -- provide the student with the classical sources and an appraisal of this greatest of Western women poets.<br><br>Barnstone's lucid, elegant translations include a representative sampling of all the significant Greek lyric poets, from Archilochus, in the seventh century B.C., through Pindar ("prince of choral poets") and the other great singers of the classical age, down to the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods. William McCulloh's introduction illuminates the forms and development of the Greek lyric. Barnstone introduces each poet with a brief biographical and literary sketch. The critical apparatus includes a glossary, index, bibliography, and concordance.<br><br>Willis Barnstone is professor of Spanish and

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• Verlag: Schocken Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1988
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0805208313
• ISBN 13: 9780805208313
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 351
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