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Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho

Autor Sappho Introducere de Carol Ann Duffy Traducere de Aaron Poochigian
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 aug 2009
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.

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ISBN-13: 9780140455571
ISBN-10: 0140455574
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Sapphowas born sometime between 630 and 617 BCE and died around 570. Little of certainty is known about her life. A native of the island of Lesbos, she resided in its largest city, Mytilene. She composed songs for choral and solo performance on a wide range of themes but is best known for amatory songs focusing on adolescent females. She is renowned as the first woman poet in literary history, and her songs have been universally admired throughout antiquity and modernity.

Aaron Poochigianwas born in 1973. He earned his Phd in Classics in 2006. He was a visiting professor of Classics at the University of Utah in 2007-8 and is currently D.L. Jordon Fellow at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. His poems and translations have appeared in a number of journals, includingChimaera,Classical JournalandUnsplendid.

Carol Ann Duffy's poetry has received every major award in Britain, including the Whitbread and the Forward prized forMean Timeand the T.S. Eliot Award forRapture. In the USA she has received the E.M. Forster and Lannan Awards. Carol Ann has also written extensively for children and has editied many anthologies.

Descriere

150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of Turkey. Little remains of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. This title covers this surviving texts that consists of fragmented body of lyric poetry.