The Poetry of Sappho by Sappho (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Poetry of Sappho by Sappho Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description 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 supremeGreek poet of love and of the personal lyric, noted especially for her limpid fusion of formal poise, lucid insight, and incandescent passion, today her poetry is also prized for its uniquely vivid participation in a living paganism. Collected in an edition of nine scrolls by scholars in the secondcentury BC, Sappho's poetry largely disappeared when the Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople in 1204. All that remained was one poem and a handful of quoted passages . A century ago papyrus fragments recovered in Egypt added a half dozen important texts to Sappho's surviving works. In 2004 a newcomplete poem was deciphered and published. By far the most significant discovery in a hundred years, it offers a new and tellingly different example of Sappho's poetic art and reveals another side of the poet, thinking about aging and about the transmission of culture from one generation to thenext. Jim Powell's translations represent a unique combination of poetic mastery in English verse and a deep schlolarly engagement with Sappho's ancient Greek. They are incomparably faithful to the literal sense of the Greek poems and, simultaneously, to their forms, preserving the original metersand stanzas while exactly replicating the dramatic action of their sequences of disclosure and the passionate momentum of their sentences. Powell's translations have often been anthologized and selected for use intextbooks, winning recognition among discerning readers as by far the best versionsin English. Publisher Description 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 of love and of the personal lyric, noted especially for her limpid fusion of formal poise, lucid insight, and incandescent passion, today her poetry is also prizedfor its uniquely vivid participation in a living paganism. Collected in an edition of nine scrolls by scholars in the second century BC, Sapphos poetry largely disappeared when the Fourth Crusadesacked Constantinople in 1204. All that remained was one poem and a handful of quoted passages . A century ago papyrus fragments recovered in Egypt added a half dozen important texts to Sapphos surviving works. In 2004 a new complete poem was deciphered and published. By far the most significant discovery in a hundred years, it offers a new and tellingly different example of Sapphos poetic art and reveals another side of the poet, thinking about aging and about the transmission of culturefrom one generation to the next. Jim Powells translations represent a unique combination of poetic mastery in English verse and a deep schlolarly engagement with Sapphos ancient Greek. They areincomparably faithful to the literal sense of the Greek poems and, simultaneously, to their forms, preserving the original meters and stanzas while exactly replicating the dramatic action of their sequences of disclosure and the passionate momentum of their sentences. Powells translations have often been anthologized and selected for use in textbooks, winning recognition among discerning readers as by far the best versions in English. Author Biography Mary Barnard(1909 - 2001)was a prominent Amreican poet, translator, and biographer with many books in her repertoire. She studied Greek at Reed College and began to translate at Ezra Pounds 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. Details ISBN 0195326725 ISBN-13 9780195326727 Title The Poetry of Sappho Author Sappho Format Paperback Year 2007 Pages 53 Publisher Oxford University Press, USA GE_Item_ID:139009499; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. 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