The Love Songs of Sappho (Literary Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (619 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 157392251X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 251 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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BRIAN VINCHESI, ASIC, CID, CIC, CLIA, CGIA, CLIM, is President of Irrigation Consulting, Inc., in Pepperell, Massachusetts. He has designed more than 260 golf course irrigation systems. Moffett Co., Inc., in Rochester, New York. ROBERT DOBSON, CID, CIC, is President of Middletown Sprinkler Company in Port Monmouth, New Jersey. Her books include Sappho is Burning, Torture and Truth, and Sow
Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: Greek
Passionate and breathtaking, Sappho's poems survive only in fragments following religious conspiracies to silence her. 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.. Called the "Tenth Muse" by the ancients, Greece's greatest female lyric poet Sappho (ca. This work retains the standard numerical order of the fragments and has been arranged in six sections. Sappho penned immortal verse on the intense power of the female libido; on the themes of romance, lo
Gayle Skowronski said Greatest lyric poet of Greece. Sappho was the greatest lyric poet of Greece, and any modern reader of her poetry can easily see why. Although she admittedly suffers in translation, one must learn to ignore the frustration caused by the occasional awkward translation. One must also try to ignore the fragmentary nature of her poems. There was once a definitive edition which consisted of nine books, but it was burned in hte Middle Ages because of the lesbian love poems. The poems we have now are just papyrus fragments or quotations.. OwlSong said Fragments of beauty & passion. It's frustrating & infuriating to realize that most of Sappho's work is lost to the ages, burned by the small-minded & intolerant. Yet what little remains is stunning in its directness, its clarity, and its celebration of both the joys & pain of love. Reading these poems is like sifting through a handful of glittering golden fragments, each one hinting at the full beauty of what's been lost. Even so, the splinters of a single line are often more intense & moving than the complete poems of others. An. "Beautiful and well-researched." according to Caleb. The fragments themselves are quite beautiful, but I found the commentary much more interesting. Since so little is known about the subject, the translator provides notes along with each fragment that lets the reader know from where the fragment came. The commentary also includes citations from many writers of Greek lyric poetry. The result is not a work that gives one man's perspective of Sappho but a work that says: "here -- this is what scholars today say about Sappho and her native Greece." The b