Sappho and the Greek Lyric Poets

Sappho and the Greek Lyric Poets
Title Sappho and the Greek Lyric Poets PDF eBook
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Publisher Pantheon
Pages 372
Release 1988
Genre Literary Criticism
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Willis Barnstone has augmented his widely used anthology of the Greek lyric poets with eleven newly attributed Sappho poems, making this the most complete offering of Sappho in English. Two new sections -- "Sources and Notes" and "Sappho: Her Life and Poems" -- provide the student with the classical sources and an appraisal of this greatest of Western women poets. Barnstone's lucid, elegant translations include a representative sampling of all the significant Greek lyric poets, from Archilochus, in the seventh century B.C., through Pindar ("prince of choral poets") and the other great singers of the classical age, down to the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods. William McCulloh's introduction illuminates the forms and development of the Greek lyric. Barnstone introduces each poet with a brief biographical and literary sketch. The critical apparatus includes a glossary, index, bibliography, and concordance. Willis Barnstone is professor of Spanish and comparative literature at Indiana University. He is co-editor of A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now, and has translated poetry of Mao Zedong, Antonio Machado, and St. John of the Cross.

Sappho's Lyre

Sappho's Lyre
Title Sappho's Lyre PDF eBook
Author Diane J. Rayor
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 236
Release 1991-08-22
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780520910966

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Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetry emerged. In this unique anthology, today's reader can enjoy the works of seventeen poets, including a selection of archaic lyric and the complete surviving works of the ancient Greek women poets—the latter appearing together in one volume for the first time. Sappho's Lyre is a combination of diligent research and poetic artistry. The translations are based on the most recent discoveries of papyri (including "new" Archilochos and Stesichoros) and the latest editions and scholarship. The introduction and notes provide historical and literary contexts that make this ancient poetry more accessible to modern readers. Although this book is primarily aimed at the reader who does not know Greek, it would be a splendid supplement to a Greek language course. It will also have wide appeal for readers of' ancient literature, women's studies, mythology, and lovers of poetry.

Greek Lyric Poetry

Greek Lyric Poetry
Title Greek Lyric Poetry PDF eBook
Author M. L. West
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 241
Release 2008-09-11
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 019954039X

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The Greek lyric, elegiac and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BCE produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity. This new poetic translation captures the nuances of meaning and the whole spirit of this poetry.

Greek Lyrics

Greek Lyrics
Title Greek Lyrics PDF eBook
Author Richmond Lattimore
Publisher
Pages 108
Release 1955
Genre English poetry
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Greek Lyric: Bacchylides, Corinna, and others

Greek Lyric: Bacchylides, Corinna, and others
Title Greek Lyric: Bacchylides, Corinna, and others PDF eBook
Author David A. Campbell
Publisher
Pages 408
Release 1982
Genre History
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Bacchylides wrote masterful choral poetry of many types. Other fifth-century BC lyricists included: Myrtis, Telesilla of Argos, Timocreon of Rhodes, Charixena, Diagoras of Melos, Ion of Chios, and Praxilla of Sicyon. More of Boeotian Corinna's poetry survives than that of any other Greek woman poet except Sappho.

Revival: Sappho - Poems and Fragments (1926)

Revival: Sappho - Poems and Fragments (1926)
Title Revival: Sappho - Poems and Fragments (1926) PDF eBook
Author Sappho
Publisher Routledge
Pages 337
Release 2018-09-03
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1351239082

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The object of this book is to provide with a popular and a comprehensive edition of Sappho, containing all that is so far known of her unique personality and her incompatible poems 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. Sappho is rated as the supreme poetess and is regarded in the same vein as Shakespeare and Homer the supreme poets.

The Songs of Bilitis

The Songs of Bilitis
Title The Songs of Bilitis PDF eBook
Author Pierre Louÿs
Publisher
Pages 368
Release 1904
Genre Deception in literature
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