Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho

Poems and Fragments of Sappho

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, Literary Theory & Criticism
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Author: Sappho ISBN: 9780141931258
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Publication: August 6, 2009
Imprint: Penguin Language: English
Author: Sappho
ISBN: 9780141931258
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication: August 6, 2009
Imprint: Penguin
Language: English

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 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. This is a new translation of her surviving poetry.

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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 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. This is a new translation of her surviving poetry.

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