If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
by:
Anne Carson (author)
Sappho (author)
From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek. Carson presents all the extant fragments of Sappho's verse, employing brackets and white space to denote missing text - allowing the reader to imagine the poems as they were written.
From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek. Carson presents all the extant fragments of Sappho's verse, employing brackets and white space to denote missing text - allowing the reader to imagine the poems as they were written.
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ISBN:
9781844080816 (1844080811)
Publish date: 2003
Publisher: Virago
Pages no: 402
Edition language: English
someone will remember us I say even in another time It's so frustrating to read these fragments. I just want to know what the whole poems were.
Imagine if the majority of Shakespeare’s plays and poetry had disappeared long ago. It’s not a far-fetched proposition, when you think about it; all of Shakespeare’s personal writing and manuscripts are missing, and several of the plays are missing (Cardenio, Love’s Labors Found, etc). However, a ...
It makes me uneasy to be underwhelmed by a book the rest of the planet rates very highly, but underwhelmed I was. I am neither a Greek scholar nor have I read Sappho previously, so maybe this was the wrong place to start. There were definitely some good fragments in the book, but a lot of the time I...
to find - wait for price to come down Édouard-Henri Avril
Never mind about that other Sappho I was looking at: Anne Carson got it covered. (Thanks Alice!)
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