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Come Close: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s No. 74 by Sappho
Category: Classics
'Yes, we did many things, then - all Beautiful...' Sensual, sun-soaked verse on love and the gods in ancient Greece, from the poet named 'the tenth Muse' by Plato. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Pen ...Show more
Greek Lyric, Volume I: Sappho and Alcaeus by Sappho; Alcaeus; David A. Campbell (Edited and Translated by)
Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main theme was love; and Alcaeus, poet of wine, war, and politics, and composer of short hymns to the gods. Also included are the principal testi ...Show more
If Not, Winter - Fragments of Sappho by Sappho; Anne Carson
Category: Gift | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho' s fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the ragged ...Show more
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (PB) by Sappho; Anne Carson
Category: Gift
If Not, Winter irresistibly combines the ancient mysteries of Sappho with the contemporary wizardry of acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson in what is sure to become the standard translation of Sappho for our time. Presented with the Greek on facing pages, her verses appear here as if on the ragged ...Show more
Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works by Sappho
Category: History
Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Of the little that survives from the approximately nine papyrus scrolls collected in antiquity, all is translated here: substantial poems, fragments, single words - and, notably, five stanzas of ...Show more
Sappho: Complete Poems and Fragments by Sappho — Translated by Stanley Lombardo
Category: Gift
In this expanded edition of his distinguished Sappho: Poems and Fragments (2002), Stanley Lombardo offers over 100 fragments not included in the original edition, as well as the new poems discovered in 2004 and 2014. His translation of this latter material yields fresh insights into Sappho's representat ...Show more
Sappho: Poems & Fragments by SAPPHO
Category: Gift
The Greek poet Sappho was one of the greatest poets in classical literature. Her lyric poetry is among the finest ever written, and although little of her work has survived and little is known about her, she is regarded not just as one of the greatest women poets, but often as the greatest woman poet in ...Show more
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho by SAPPHO
Category: Gift
More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts co ...Show more
The Pocket Sappho by Sappho (Translated by Willis Barnstone)
Category: Classics | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet by the prize-winning poet and translator. Sappho's thrilling lyric verses have been unremittingly popular for more than 2,600 years--certainly a record for poetry of any kind--and love for her art only increases as time goes on. Though h ...Show more
The Poetry of Sappho by Sappho; Jim Powell
Category: Gift
Today, thousands of years after her birth, in lands remote from her native island of Lesbos and in languages that did not exist when she wrote her poetry in Aeolic Greek, Sappho remains an important name among lovers of poetry and poets alike, . Celebrated throughout antiquity as the supreme Greek poet ...Show more
Wild Nights: Heart Wisdom .. Women Poets by Lisa Locascio (Foreword by); Sappho; Emily Dickinson; Edna St Vincent Millay; Amy Lowell; Sara Teasdale; Claire Whitmore (Illustrator)
Category: Accessories
"A lovely collection of poetry." -- Book Scrounger "The foreword is amazing. A lovely little anthology with some beautiful poetry by some very talented women." -- From the Inside In this soul-stirring collection of timeless verse, five legendary female poets address life's pains and sorrows as well as i ...Show more
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