Sappho: Poems - Couverture souple

Sappho; Barnstone, Willis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 189229513X ISBN 13 : 9781892295132

Editeur : Green Integer, 2023

Synopsis

This edition reintroduces Sappho to the modern reader, providing a vivid, contemporary translation, which captures the spareness and the intensity of Sappho’s line. The wondrous Mary Barnard translation was based, unfortunately, on the 1928 Loeb edition by J. M. Edmonds, who filled in many of Sappho’s fragment with his own Greek lines. In Professor Barnstone’s brilliant translation, Sappho’s work is presented as we have inherited it, in its darkly antiromantic idiom that rejects sentimentality and “prettiness.”

Willis Barnstone is one of the most noted translators of today. He has translated numerous texts, including The Cosmic Fragments of Heraclitus, Greek Lyric Poetry, the Old Testament’s erotic book The Song of Songs, and a literary translation of the New Testament. He is also the author of New and Selected Poems (1997), Moonbook & Sunbook (1998) and other books of poetry.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Sappho was a Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. The Alexandrians included her in the list of nine lyric poets. Her birth was sometime between 630 and 612 BC, and it is said that she died around 570 BC, but little is known for certain about her life. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, has been lost, but her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This edition reintroduces Sappho to the modern reader, providing a vivid, contemporary translation, which captures the spareness and the intensity of Sappho's line. In Professor Barnstone's brilliant translation, Sappho's work is presented as we have inherited it, in its darkly antiromantic idiom that rejects sentimentality and """"prettiness"""".

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Green Integer
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 189229513X
• ISBN 13: 9781892295132
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 151
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible