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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 tContinue
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lrb published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010
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If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Knopf, 397 pp., $27.50 It isn't often that one looks forward with excitement to a new translation of an ancient and much translated text, but that's how I anticipated reading Anne Carson's translation of Sappho's complete works. As a poet and classic ... (read full critics)
austinchronicle published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010
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- English Books
- Paperback 416 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0375724516
- ISBN-13: 9780375724510
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Aug 12, 2003
- Also available as: Hardcover
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Tongue breaks
Some time around the ninth century, Sappho’s nine books were irrecoverably lost. We have some tantalising scraps, single lines and short quotations, but only one complete poem – the ‘Ode to Aphrodite’ (Fragment 1), which is quoted by Dionysius of Hal ... (read full critics)