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Original Essays | December 12, 2009

Alexander McCall Smith: IMG The Courage of Others

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Sappho a New Translation

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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. 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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ISBN:
9780520011175
Author:
Sappho/barnard
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Subject:
General
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Ancient and Classical
Copyright:
1958
Series Volume:
1083
Publication Date:
1958
Binding:
Trade Paper
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 114 p.
Dimensions:
7.33x4.53x.37 in. .21 lbs.
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