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Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho: Poems and Fragments of Sappho
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho: Poems and Fragments of Sappho
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For the first time in Penguin Classics, a new translation of Sappho's complete poetry
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.
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.
- Publisher: Penguin
- Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 x 1.02 cm
- Language: English
- Print length: 160 pages
- Item weight: 123 g
- Edition: 1st
- Book Type: Paperback
- ISBN-10: 0140455574
- ISBN-13: 978-0140455571
- Publication date: 7 September 2009
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