Sappho

Author : Sarah Dowling
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781770566514

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Entering Sappho by Sarah Dowling Pdf

An abandoned town named for the classical lesbian leads to questions about history and settlement. Driving along the Pacific Coast Highway, you come to a road sign: Entering Sappho. Nothing remains of the town, just trash at the side of the highway and thick, wet bush. Can Sappho’s breathless eroticism tell us anything about settlement—about why we’re here in front of this sign? Mixing historical documents, oral histories, and experimental translations of the original lesbian poet’s works, this book combines documentary and speculation, surveying a century in reverse. This town is one of many with a classical name. Take it as a symbol: perhaps in a place that no longer exists, another kind of future might be possible.

Author : Willis Barnstone
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0834822008

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The Complete Poems of Sappho by Willis Barnstone Pdf

Sappho’s thrilling lyric verse has 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 her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems, her mystique endures to be discovered anew by each generation, and to inspire new efforts at bringing the spirit of her Greek words faithfully into English. In the past, translators have taken two basic approaches to Sappho: either very literally translating only the words in the fragments, or taking the liberty of reconstructing the missing parts. Willis Barnstone has taken a middle course, in which he remains faithful to the words of the fragments, only very judiciously filling in a word or phrase in cases where the meaning is obvious. This edition includes extensive notes and a special section of "Testimonia": appreciations of Sappho in the words of ancient writers from Plato to Plutarch. Also included are a glossary of all the figures mentioned in the poems, and suggestions for further reading.

Author : Sappho
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0872205916

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Poems and Fragments by Sappho Pdf

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 translator puts it: 'ever mindful of performative qualities, quality of voice, changes of voice...'

Author : Sappho
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015067709157

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Sweetbitter Love by Sappho Pdf

In this translation of the Greek poetess's work, Barnstone remains faithful to the words of the fragments, only very judiciously filling in a word or phrase in cases where the meaning is obvious.

Author : Philip Freeman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393242249

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Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet by Philip Freeman Pdf

An exploration of the fascinating poetry, life, and world of Sappho, including a complete translation of all her poems. For more than twenty-five centuries, all that the world knew of the poems of Sappho—the first woman writer in literary history—were a few brief quotations preserved by ancient male authors. Yet those meager remains showed such power and genius that they captured the imagination of readers through the ages. But within the last century, dozens of new pieces of her poetry have been found written on crumbling papyrus or carved on broken pottery buried in the sands of Egypt. As recently as 2014, yet another discovery of a missing poem created a media stir around the world. The poems of Sappho reveal a remarkable woman who lived on the Greek island of Lesbos during the vibrant age of the birth of western science, art, and philosophy. Sappho was the daughter of an aristocratic family, a wife, a devoted mother, a lover of women, and one of the greatest writers of her own or any age. Nonetheless, although most people have heard of Sappho, the story of her lost poems and the lives of the ancient women they celebrate has never been told for a general audience. Searching for Sappho is the exciting tale of the rediscovery of Sappho’s poetry and of the woman and world they reveal.

Author : Sappho,John Maxwell Edmonds
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486817279

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Poems of Sappho by Sappho,John Maxwell Edmonds Pdf

"The Tenth Muse" sings to both sexes of desire, rapture, and sorrow. This concise collection of the ancient Greek poet's surviving works was assembled and translated by a distinguished classicist.

Author : Selby Wynn Schwartz
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781324092322

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After Sappho: A Novel by Selby Wynn Schwartz Pdf

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE A Guardian Best Book of the Year A New York Times Editors' Choice Selection “A work of stirring genius, a catalogue of intimacies and inventions, desires and dreams." —Jacob Brogan, Washington Post An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at the turn of the twentieth century. “The first thing we did was change our names. We were going to be Sappho,” so begins this intrepid debut novel, centuries after the Greek poet penned her lyric verse. Ignited by the same muse, a myriad of women break from their small, predetermined lives for seemingly disparate paths: in 1892, Rina Faccio trades her needlepoint for a pen; in 1902, Romaine Brooks sails for Capri with nothing but her clotted paintbrushes; and in 1923, Virginia Woolf writes: “I want to make life fuller and fuller.” Writing in cascading vignettes, Selby Wynn Schwartz spins an invigorating tale of women whose narratives converge and splinter as they forge queer identities and claim the right to their own lives. A luminous meditation on creativity, education, and identity, After Sappho announces a writer as ingenious as the trailblazers of our past. “This book is splendid: Impish, irate, deep, courageous. . . . Brava!”—Lucy Ellmann, author of Ducks, Newburyport

Author : Ellen Greene
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0520206037

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Re-Reading Sappho by Ellen Greene Pdf

The essays in this volume review the seemingly endless permutations wrought on Sappho through centuries of readings and re-writings.

Author : Sappho
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307556981

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If Not, Winter by Sappho Pdf

By combining the ancient mysteries of Sappho with the contemporary wizardry of one of our most fearless and original poets, If Not, Winter provides a tantalizing window onto the genius of a woman whose lyric power spans millennia. 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 scraps of papyrus that preserve them, inviting a thrill of discovery and conjecture that can be described only as electric—or, to use Sappho’s words, as “thin fire . . . racing under skin.” "Sappho's verse has been elevated to new heights in [this] gorgeous translation." --The New York Times "Carson is in many ways [Sappho's] ideal translator....Her command of language is hones to a perfect edge and her approach to the text, respectful yet imaginative, results in verse that lets Sappho shine forth." --Los Angeles Times

Author : P. J. Finglass,Adrian Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107189058

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The Cambridge Companion to Sappho by P. J. Finglass,Adrian Kelly Pdf

A detailed up-to-date survey of the most important woman writer from Greco-Roman antiquity. Examines the nature and context of her poetic achievement, the transmission, loss and rediscovery of her poetry, and the reception of that poetry in cultures far removed from ancient Greece, including Latin America, India, China, and Japan.

Author : Yopie Prins
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691222158

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Victorian Sappho by Yopie Prins Pdf

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 centuries as the original woman poet, singing at the origins of a Western lyric tradition. Victorian Sappho traces the emergence of this idealized feminine figure through reconstructions of the Sapphic fragments in late-nineteenth-century England. Yopie Prins argues that the Victorian period is a critical turning point in the history of Sappho's reception; what we now call "Sappho" is in many ways an artifact of Victorian poetics. Prins reads the Sapphic fragments in Greek alongside various English translations and imitations, considering a wide range of Victorian poets--male and female, famous and forgotten--who signed their poetry in the name of Sappho. By "declining" the name in each chapter, the book presents a theoretical argument about the Sapphic signature, as well as a historical account of its implications in Victorian England. Prins explores the relations between classical philology and Victorian poetics, the tropes of lesbian writing, the aesthetics of meter, and nineteenth-century personifications of the "Poetess." as current scholarship on Sappho and her afterlife. Offering a history and theory of lyric as a gendered literary form, the book is an exciting and original contribution to Victorian studies, classical studies, comparative literature, and women's studies.

Author : Pierre Louÿs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Deception in literature
ISBN : PRNC:32101068973526

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The Songs of Bilitis by Pierre Louÿs Pdf

Author : Marguerite Johnson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472538666

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Sappho by Marguerite Johnson Pdf

This series of short incisive books introduces major figures of the ancient world to the modern general reader, including the essentials of each subject's life, works, and significance for later western civilisation. In the newly created tradition of the "Ancients in Action" series, Marguerite Johnson has written a fascinating and accessible account of what remains of the life and works of the Greek poet, Sappho. Sappho's ancient biography is covered in addition to the post-classical accounts of her life, which continue to appear, in a variety of creative and non-creative contexts, in contemporary literature and art. Sappho's poetry, essentially preserved in tantalising fragments, is discussed in a series of thematic chapters that include her religious writings, particularly directed to the goddess of love, Aphrodite; personal interpretations of mythological themes; marriage hymns; and love songs to female companions.

Author : Sappho,Edwin Marion Cox
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Art
ISBN : EAN:8596547023067

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The Poems of Sappho by Sappho,Edwin Marion Cox Pdf

Sappho was an Archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. This volume which presents all the surviving poetry of Sappho, known for her lyrical poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by music.

Author : Sappho
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195326710

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The New Sappho by Sappho Pdf

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