Sappho: Poems (Green Integer Books, 26) - Softcover

Sappho; Barnstone, Willis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 189229513X ISBN 13: 9781892295132

Verlag: Green Integer, 2023

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Reseña del editor:

This edition reintroduces Sappho to the modern reader, providing a vivid, contemporary translation, which captures the spareness and the intensity of Sappho's line. The wondrous Mary Barnard translation was based, unfortunately, on the 1928 Loeb edition by J.M. Edmonds, who filled in many of Sappho's fragment with his own Greek lines. In Professor Barnstone's brilliant translation, Sappho's work is presented as we have inherited it, in its darkly antiromantic idiom that rejects sentimentality and "prettiness."

Willis Barnstone is one of the most noted translators of today. Barnstone has translated numerous texts, including The Cosmic Fragments of Heraclitus, Greek Lyric Poetry, and a literary translation of the New Testament. He is also the author of New and Selected Poems (1997), Moonbook & Sunbook (1998) and other books of poetry.

Biografía del autor:

Sappho (630 - c. 570 BC) was an Archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. Sappho is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by a lyre. In ancient times, Sappho was widely regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets and was given names such as the "Tenth Muse" and "The Poetess."

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• Verlag: Green Integer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• ISBN 10: 189229513X
• ISBN 13: 9781892295132
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 151