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Here are Sappho's songs and poems as English poems, all her famous
pieces, all the fragments that can make connected sense, and all
the discoveries of 2004 and 2014. These translations set out to be
good English poetry first and foremost, and succeed well beyond
other current versions. They have been made directly from Sappho's
Greek, by a poet with three collections to his credit, and are
relatively close to the Greek. Each piece has a concise footnote
that explains references and allusions, and suggests critical
appreciation. A substantial Afterword says much more about Sappho's
themes, her art and style, and her historical setting. Sappho is
one of the greatest poets of the western world. She lived on the
Greek island of Lesbos around 600 BCE, near the very beginning of
western literature, and composed 300 or so poems and songs. Her
poems create a woman-centred world in which women and relationships
are highly valued, a world of beauty and grace, love and loss,
sandals and hairbands, all sometimes exalted and idealised. She
opposes women's values to those of the dominant male society around
her, and is the first to do this in the western canon. She was
famous in her lifetime and has been deeply admired ever since.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
The object of this book is to provide with a popular and a
comprehensive edition of Sappho, containing all that is so far
known of her unique personality and her incompatible poems Little
remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl.
late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is said to
have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria
some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts consist of a
lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry--among them,
poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, resignation, and
remembrance--that nevertheless enables us to hear the living voice
of the poet Plato called the tenth Muse. Sappho is rated as the
supreme poetess and is regarded in the same vein as Shakespeare and
Homer the supreme poets.
The object of this book is to provide with a popular and a
comprehensive edition of Sappho, containing all that is so far
known of her unique personality and her incompatible poems Little
remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl.
late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is said to
have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria
some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts consist of a
lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry--among them,
poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, resignation, and
remembrance--that nevertheless enables us to hear the living voice
of the poet Plato called the tenth Muse. Sappho is rated as the
supreme poetess and is regarded in the same vein as Shakespeare and
Homer the supreme poets.
Called the "Tenth Muse" by the ancients, Greece's greatest female
lyric poet Sappho (ca. 610-580 b.c.e.) spent the majority of her
life on the famed island of Lesbos. Passionate and breathtaking,
Sappho's poems survive only in fragments following religious
conspiracies to silence her. Sappho penned immortal verse on the
intense power of the female libido; on the themes of romance, love,
yearning, heartbreak, and personal relationships with women. This
work retains the standard numerical order of the fragments and has
been arranged in six sections. Distinguished poet and lecturer Paul
Roche's translation of The Love Songs of Sappho is enhanced with
his brilliant essay, "Portrait of Sappho," as well as a lucid
historical introduction by celebrated feminist and classicist Page
duBois.
"In this expanded edition of his distinguished Sappho: Poems and
Fragments (2002), Stanley Lombardo offers over 100 fragments not
included in the original edition, as well as the new poems
discovered in 2004 and 2014. His translation of this latter
material yields fresh insights into Sappho's representations of old
age, two of her brothers, and her special relationship with
Aphrodite. Pamela Gordon's engaging, balanced, and informative
Introduction has been revised to incorporate discussion of the new
fragments, which subtly alter our previous understanding of the
archaic poet's corpus. Complete Poems and Fragments also offers a
useful updated bibliography, as well as a section on 'Elegiac
Sappho' that presents the reception of the Lesbian poet in later
Greek and Latin elegiac poems. A wonderful find for any Greekless
reader searching for a complete and up-to-date Sappho. -Patricia A.
Rosenmeyer, Department of Classics, University of
Wisconsin--Madison
These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of
Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom
the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Mary Barnard's
translations are lean, incisive, direct-the best ever published.
She has rendered the beloved poet's verses, long the bane of
translators, more authentically than anyone else in English.
'Yes, we did many things, then - all Beautiful ...' Lyrical,
powerful poems about love, sexuality, sun-soaked Greece and the
gods. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's
80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and
diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and
across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over
Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del
Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are
stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays
satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives
of millions. Sappho (c.630-570 BCE). Sappho's Stung with Love is
available in Penguin Classics.
This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious
singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous
woman poet of antiquity, whose main theme was love; and Alcaeus,
poet of wine, war, and politics, and composer of short hymns to the
gods. Also included are the principal testimonia, the ancients'
reports on the lives and work of the two poets.
The five volumes in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Greek
Lyric contain the surviving fragments of solo and choral song. This
poetry was not preserved in medieval manuscripts, and few complete
poems remain. Later writers quoted from the poets, but only so much
as suited their needs; these quotations are supplemented by papyrus
texts found in Egypt, most of them badly damaged. The high quality
of what remains makes us realise the enormity of our loss.
Volume I presents Sappho and Alcaeus. Volume II contains the
work of Anacreon, composer of solo song; the " Anacreontea"; and
the earliest writers of choral poetry, notably the seventh-century
Spartans Alcman and Terpander. Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides, and
other sixth-century poets are in Volume III. Bacchylides and other
fifth-century poets are in Volume IV along with Corinna (although
some argue that she belongs to the third century). Volume V
contains the new school of poets active from the mid-fifth to the
mid-fourth century and also collects folk songs, drinking songs,
hymns, and other anonymous pieces.
Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho’s fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the ragged scraps of papyrus that preserve them, inviting a thrill of discovery and conjecture that can be described only as electric—or, to use Sappho’s words, as “thin fire . . . racing under skin.” By combining the ancient mysteries of Sappho with the contemporary wizardry of one of our most fearless and original poets, If Not, Winter provides a tantalizing window onto the genius of a woman whose lyric power spans millennia.
For the first time in Penguin Classics--the incomparable verse of
the ancient Greek lyric poet Sappho, in a brilliant new translation
Sappho's writings are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in
the great library at Alexandria, but only one poem survives
complete. This new translation of all of Sappho's extant poetry
showcases the wide variety of themes in her work, from amorous
songs celebrating adolescent females to poems of invocation,
desire, spite, celebration, resignation, and remembrance. Aaron
Poochigian captures the eros and mystery of Sappho's verse,
bringing to readers of English the living voice of the poet Plato
called "the tenth Muse," whose lyric power remains undiminished
after 2,500 years.
This second, expanded edition of Josephine Balmer's classic
translation of the Greek poet Sappho has new, recently-discovered
fragments, including the Brothers Poem, the Kypris Song and the
Cologne Fragment. In a new essay on these additions she discusses
the issues raised in the translating - and in some cases
retranslating - of these fragmentary and ever-shifting texts. Poems
& Fragments is now the only complete, readily-available
translation in English of Sappho's surviving work. Sappho was one
of the greatest poets in classical literature. Her lyric poetry is
among the finest ever written, and although little of her work has
survived and little is known about her, she is regarded not just as
one of the greatest women poets, but often as the greatest woman
poet in world literature. She lived on the island of Lesbos around
600 BC, and even in her lifetime, her work was widely known and
admired in the Greek world. Plato called her 'the tenth muse', and
she was a major influence on other poets, from Horace and Catullus
to more recent lyric poets. Yet in later centuries, speculation
about her sexuality has tended to diminish her poetic reputation.
One medieval pope considered her so subversive that her poems were
burned. Some of her poems were written for the women she loved, but
her circle of women friends and admirers was not unlike Socrates'
circle of followers. She may have been a lesbian in the modern
sense, or she may not, but to call her a lesbian poet is an
over-simplification. What remains is her poetry, or the fragments
which have survived of it, and her intense, sensuous, highly
accomplished love poems are among the finest in any language. First
published in 1984 and revised in 1992, Josephine Balmer's edition
brings together all the extant poems and fragments of Sappho. In a
comprehensive introduction, she discusses Sappho's poetry, its
historical background and critical reputation, as well as aspects
of contemporary Greek society, sexuality and women.
Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet
Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is
said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at
Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts
consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric
poetry--among them, poems of invocation, desire, spite,
celebration, resignation, and remembrance--that nevertheless
enables us to hear the living voice of the poet Plato called the
tenth Muse. Stanley Lombardo's translations give us a virtuoso
embodiment of Sappho's voice, whose telltale charm, authority,
immediacy, directness, intensity, and sudden changes of tone are
among the hallmarks of his masterly translation. Pamela Gordon
introduces us to the world of Sappho, discusses questions
surrounding the transmission of her manuscripts, offers advice on
reading these texts, and concludes with an enlightening discussion
of same-sex desire in Sappho.
"In this expanded edition of his distinguished Sappho: Poems and
Fragments (2002), Stanley Lombardo offers over 100 fragments not
included in the original edition, as well as the new poems
discovered in 2004 and 2014. His translation of this latter
material yields fresh insights into Sappho's representations of old
age, two of her brothers, and her special relationship with
Aphrodite. Pamela Gordon's engaging, balanced, and informative
Introduction has been revised to incorporate discussion of the new
fragments, which subtly alter our previous understanding of the
archaic poet's corpus. Complete Poems and Fragments also offers a
useful updated bibliography, as well as a section on 'Elegiac
Sappho' that presents the reception of the Lesbian poet in later
Greek and Latin elegiac poems. A wonderful find for any Greekless
reader searching for a complete and up-to-date Sappho. -Patricia A.
Rosenmeyer, Department of Classics, University of
Wisconsin--Madison
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