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Come Close: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s No. 74 by Sappho
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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
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (PB) by Sappho; Anne Carson
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Category: Poetry
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 by Sappho
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Category: Poetry
These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of "Sappho" that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Mary Barnard's translations are lean, incisive, direct - the best ever published. She has rendered the beloved poet's ver ...Show more
Sappho: A New Translation by Sappho, Barnard, Mary, Fitts, Dudley
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Category: Poetry
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho by SAPPHO
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Category: 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 co ...Show more
The Pocket Sappho by Sappho (Translated by Willis Barnstone)
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Category: Poetry | 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
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