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Ancient and Modern Images of Sappho: Translations and Studies in Archaic Greek Love Lyricby Sappho , Jeffrey M. DubanISBN 0819135615 (0-8191-3561-5)
Softcover, University Press of America
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Hardcover, University Press of America - Ancient and Modern Images of Sappho: Translations and Studies in Archaic Greek Love Lyric: ISBN 0819135615 (0-8191-3561-5)
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The Art of Loving Women: The Poetry of Sapphoby Sappho , J. Frederick SmithISBN 0877540314 (0-87754-031-4)
Hardcover, Chelsea House
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Canto for Sirensby Sappho , Patricia Wilson-AdamsISBN 0975132407 (0-9751324-0-7)
Softcover, Pokataroo Press
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Greek Lyricby Sappho , Alcaeus, David A. CampbellISBN 0434991422 (0-434-99142-2)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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Greek Lyric: Sappho Alcaeusby Sappho , Alcaeus, David A. CampbellISBN 0674991575 (0-674-99157-5)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Greek Lyric: Sappho Alcaeus'Book summary:This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main theme was love; and Alcaeus, poet of wine, war, and politics, and composer of short hymns to the gods. Also included are the principal testimonia, the ancients' reports on the lives and work of the two poets.
The five volumes in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Greek Lyric contain the surviving fragments of solo and choral song. This poetry was not preserved in medieval manuscripts, and few complete poems remain. Later writers quoted from the poets, but only so much as suited their needs; these quotations are supplemented by papyrus texts found in Egypt, most of them badly damaged. The high quality of what remains makes us realise the enormity of our loss.
Volume I presents Sappho and Alcaeus. Volume II contains the work of Anacreon, composer of solo song; the Anacreontea; and the earliest writers of choral poetry, notably the seventh-century Spartans Alcman and Terpander. Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides, and other sixth-century poets are in Volume III. Bacchylides and other fifth-century poets are in Volume IV along with Corinna (although some argue that she belongs to the third century). Volume V contains the new school of poets active from the mid-fifth to the mid-fourth century and also collects folk songs, drinking songs, hymns, and other anonymous pieces.
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If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sapphoby Sappho , Anne CarsonISBN 1844080811 (1-84408-081-1)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If Not, Winter : Fragments of Sappho'Book summary: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 Sapphos 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 electricor, to use Sapphos words, as thin fire . . . racing under skin. 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. [via]
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The Love Songs of Sapphoby Paul Roche, SapphoISBN 157392251X (1-57392-251-X)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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Paucae Micae: A Few Crumbsby Horace, Sappho , William ChristieISBN 0902461109 (0-902461-10-9)
Hardcover, Castlelaw Press
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Poemsby Sappho , Suzy Q. GrodenISBN 0672604647 (0-672-60464-7)
Softcover, Bobbs-Merrill Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poems'Book summary:Sapphos thrilling lyric verse has been unremittingly popular for more than 2,600 yearscertainly a record for poetry of any kindand 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.--(Text refers to a previous edition) [via]
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Poems and Fragmentsby SapphoISBN 1852242019 (1-85224-201-9)
Softcover, Bloodaxe Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poems and Fragments'Book summary:Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is 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.
Stanley Lombardo's translations give us a virtuoso embodiment of Sappho's voice, whose telltale charm, authority, immediacy, directness, intensity, and sudden changes of tone are among the hallmarks of his masterly translation.
Pamela Gordon introduces us to the world of Sappho, discusses questions surrounding the transmission of her manuscripts, offers advice on reading these texts, and concludes with an enlightening discussion of same-sex desire in Sappho. [via]
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Hardcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc - Poems and Fragments: ISBN 0942208013 (0-942208-01-3)
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Poems and Fragmentsby Jim Powell, SapphoISBN 0374253935 (0-374-25393-5)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Poems By Sapphoby SapphoISBN 1419142097 (1-4191-4209-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poems By Sappho'Book summary:It was you, Atthis, who said "Sappho, if you will not get up and let us look at you I shall never love you again! [via]
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The Poetry of Sapphoby SapphoISBN 0195326725 (0-19-532672-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Sapphoby SapphoISBN 0520223128 (0-520-22312-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sappho'Book summary: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 verses, long the bane of translators, more authentically than anyone else in English.[via]More editions of Sappho:
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Sappho the Poems: The Poemsby Sappho , Sasha NewbornISBN 0942208110 (0-942208-11-0)
Softcover, Bandanna Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sappho the Poems: The Poems'Book summary:Sappho was perhaps the originator of the personal poetry genre. She lived on Lesbos a hundred years before the rise of Athens to pre-eminence. Long after her death, Plato praised her work as that of the Tenth Muse. Later eras, especially the early Christian church, saw her work as abominable because she dealt openly with sex and with feelings, so that her work was almost totally obliterated. A few new pieces emerged in 1950. Many poets have undertaken to translate her work. Sasha Newborn's version is personable, not academic; a companion volume, Supplement Edition of Sappho, contains a wealth of critical comment and background information on Sappho, her poetry, and her times; this was also compiled by Sasha Newborn. Sappho spoke in Aeolian Greek, and developed musical modes as well. She ran a school for girls that involved performances, presumably of her work as well as others, which would have combined dance, music, and poetry. Unlike the other great Greek poets, she did not write epics, only a few laudatory odes, and no drinking songs. Her delicately nuanced lines convey much more than the words on the page; one might call it an openness to life. [via]
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The Sappho Companionby Margaret Reynolds, SapphoISBN 0312239246 (0-312-23924-6)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sappho Companion'Book summary:The ways in which this sparkling, unexpected anthology will be classified in libraries and bookstores--lesbian studies; classical studies--will strike anyone who reads it as absurd. A sweeping look at the persistence of the Greek poet Sappho in the artistic and popular imagination, The Sappho Companion draws on everything from the Roman myths of Sappho to the eighteenth century rediscovery of Herculaneum, with its intriguing papyrus fragments, to Pat Califia's 1980 lesbian S/M book, Sapphistry: The Book of Lesbian Sexuality (out of print). The only book that compares to The Sappho Companion in its breadth and imaginative vigor is Charles Sprawson's lyrical book on swimming, Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero, in which the swan-diving Sappho makes an appearance. You don't need to know a thing about Sappho to relish this book, but for true enthusiasts, it makes a good companion volume for Yopie Prins's Victorian Sappho, Paige DuBois's Sappho is Burning, and Anne Carson's brilliant meditation, Eros: The Bittersweet. --Regina Marler [via]
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Sappho in Englishby SapphoISBN 0140422293 (0-14-042229-3)
Hardcover, Northwestern University Press
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Sappho : Poems and Fragmentsby Sappho , Josephine BalmerISBN 0821620002 (0-8216-2000-2)
Softcover, Carol Publishing Group
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Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sapphoby Sappho , Josephine BalmerISBN 1590301757 (1-59030-175-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Woman from Child (Sappho)by Sappho , Patrick FetherstonISBN 0950116025 (0-9501160-2-5)
Hardcover, Tetralith Books [for] Writers' Forum
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