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Sappho: A New Translation

by Sappho

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Publisher Comments:

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.

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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.

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The best translation of Sappho's work available, now with a beautiful new package.
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About the Author

Mary Barnard studied Greek at Reed College and began to translate at Ezra Pound's instigation in the 1930s. Her Assault on Mount Helicon: A Literary Memoir was published by the University of California Press in 1984. Two years later she received the Western States Book Award for her book-length poem, Time and the White Tigress. She has also published prose fiction and a volume of essays on mythology as well as the original lyrics gathered in Collected Poems, 1979.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780520223127
Translator:
Barnard, Mary
Foreword:
Fitts, Dudley
Translator:
Barnard, Mary
Foreword by:
Fitts, Dudley
Foreword:
Fitts, Dudley
Author:
Sappho
Author:
Fitts, Dudley
Author:
Barnard, Mary
Publisher:
University of California Press
Location:
Berkeley
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Greece
Subject:
Ancient, Classical & Medieval
Subject:
English poetry
Subject:
Women -- Greece.
Subject:
Sappho
Subject:
Ancient & Classical
Subject:
Classics-Medieval and Renaissance General
Copyright:
1999
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series Volume:
[no. 83-84]
Publication Date:
19991231
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
124
Dimensions:
7.25 x 4.5 x 0.38 in 4 oz
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