The Poems of Sappho: A New Rendering: Hymn to Aphrodite, 52 fragments, & Ovid's Sappho to Phaon; with a short biography of Sappho (Aziloth Books) - Softcover

Stacpoole, Henry De Vere

 
9781911405993: The Poems of Sappho: A New Rendering: Hymn to Aphrodite, 52 fragments, & Ovid's Sappho to Phaon; with a short biography of Sappho (Aziloth Books)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1911405993 ISBN 13: 9781911405993
Verlag: Aziloth Books, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

It says much of Sappho’s timeless genius that while only a fraction of her works remains for us to enjoy, she is recognised as the mistress bar none of lyric poetry. And in Henry de Vere Stacpoole’s translation we have a sensitive rendition that does justice to the deep-felt emotions of her songs. Sappho was born into the aristocracy of 7th century B.C. Lesbos. Nine scrolls of her works were recorded in the great library of Alexandria but much of her prolific legacy was burnt by zealous Christian leaders in medieval times. What remains comes to us from the quotes of early commentators who revered her talent: one complete poem (The Hymn to Aphrodite), three incomplete poems and over 170 fragments, many just single words. They are expressions of friendship, rivalry, family, and the exquisite rapture and pain of love. This edition contains the most intact poems and fragments together with Ovid’s Heroic Epistle XV, Sappho to Phaon. In Stacpoole’s words, "the spangled thread" of Sappho’s mind echoes down through the ages and continues to delight us today.

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Verlag
Aziloth Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1911405993
ISBN 13 
9781911405993
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
56
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