Sophocles' tragedies--from "Antigone" to "Oedipus Tyrannus"--are
filled with highly wrought, vivid, and emotionally powerful poetry.
Yet most translations sacrifice the poetry to convey only the sense
of the lines as dramatic speech. This is the first book in English
to present Sophocles exclusively as a poet, and the only volume to
reveal the full force and beauty of his verse. With a fresh and
consistent attention to structure, language, and rhythm across
Sophocles' writings, Reginald Gibbons has translated a selection of
odes from Sophocles' surviving plays as well as fragments from his
lost works. What emerges is a genuinely new sense of a Sophocles
who was as much poet as dramatist. Bringing the Greek poet and his
world surprisingly close to us, these translations also restore a
sense of the long continuity of poetry. Complete with an
introduction, this edition reveals Sophocles' poetic brilliance as
never before.
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