
- 269 pages
- English
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Revival: Sappho - Poems and Fragments (1926)
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication page
- Original Title Page
- To Sappho
- Sigla
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Poems of Sappho
- Epithalamia
- Epigrams
- Ovid’s Epistle Of Sappho To Phaon
- The Rhythms And Metres Of Sappho
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Vocabulary, Glossary, And Index Of Names
- Index Of Proper Names
- Notes
- Broadway Translations