Sappho's Lyre

Sappho's Lyre
Author: Diane J. Rayor
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1991
Genre: Greek poetry
ISBN: 9780520073357


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"The translations are excellent--at once literal, graceful, and idiomatic--and the poems have been selected in a way that is unparalleled in any comparable collection and is responsive to contemporary concerns."--Sheila Murnaghan, author of Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey "As English poems in their own right, and as honest and sensitive transpositions of the Greek songs, these works surpass any translations of the archaic lyrists that I have seen."--John Herington, author of Poetry into Drama


Sappho's Lyre
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Diane J. Rayor
Categories: Greek poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"The translations are excellent--at once literal, graceful, and idiomatic--and the poems have been selected in a way that is unparalleled in any comparable coll
The Woman and the Lyre
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: Jane M Snyder
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-09 - Publisher: SIU Press

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Beginning with Sappho in the seventh century B.C.E and ending with Egeria in the fifth century C.E., Snyder profiles ancient Greek and Roman women writers, incl
Poems and Fragments
Language: en
Pages: 106
Authors: Sappho
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-01-01 - Publisher: Hackett Publishing

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Presents a Sappho by a poet and translator that treats the fragments as aesthetic wholes, complete in their fragmentariness, and which is also, as the translato
Victorian Sappho
Language: en
Pages: 293
Authors: Yopie Prins
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-08 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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What is Sappho, except a name? Although the Greek archaic lyrics attributed to Sappho of Lesbos survive only in fragments, she has been invoked for many centuri
SAPPHO: for the Student
Language: en
Pages: 150
Authors: Jean Elizabeth Ward
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-02 - Publisher: Lulu.com

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SAPPHO: FOR THE STUDENT, is two books in one: Part I is the poems, and fragments of poems by Sappho, with 68 poems by American Poet Laureate, Jean Elizabeth War