The Sappho Companion
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0099738619
ISBN-13
9780099738619
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Imprint
Vintage
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 4th, 2001
Print length
432 Pages
Weight
294 grams
Dimensions
19.90 x 20.20 x 3.30 cms
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Born around 630BC on the Greek island of Lesbos, Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of ancient Greece, ironic and passionate, capturing the troubled depths of love. This anthology displays the way different periods have taken up Sappho's haunting story bringing together many different kinds of work.
Born around 630BC on the Greek island of Lesbos, Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of ancient Greece, ironic and passionate, capturing the troubled depths of love. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story and her sexuality.This remarkable anthology brilliantly displays the way different periods have taken up Sappho''s haunting story bringing together many different kinds of work. We see her image change, re-created in Ovid''s poetry and Boccaccio''s tales, in translations by Pope, Rossetti and Swinburne, Baudelaire, in the modern versions of Eavan Boland, Ruth Padel and Jeanette Winterson.
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