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Title: The Love Songs of Sappho (Literary Classics) by Sappho, Paul Roche, Page DuBois ISBN: 157392251X Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful and well-researched.
Comment: 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 book also includes an interesting essay by the translator, cute sketches, and a glossary of people and places.
Rating: 5
Summary: Greatest lyric poet of Greece
Comment: 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. However, even in English, even with only a few extant pieces, Sappho's poetry is vibrant and beautiful.
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Title: Sappho: A New Translation by Mary Barnard, Sappho, Dudley Fitts ISBN: 0520223128 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho, Anne Carson ISBN: 0375410678 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Sappho the Poems: The Poems by Sappho, Sasha Newborn, Jeanne Morgan ISBN: 0942208110 Publisher: Bandanna Books Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Sappho Companion by Margaret Reynolds, Sappho Selections ISBN: 0312239246 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel About Sappho of Lesbos by Peter Green ISBN: 0520203402 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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