Download or read book The Love Songs of Sappho written by Sappho and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called the "Tenth Muse" by the ancients, Greece's greatest female lyric poet Sappho (ca. 610-580 B.C.E.) spent the majority of her life on the famed island of Lesbos. Passionate and breathtaking, her poems survive only in fragments, following religious conspiracies to silence her. This excellent translation includes Roche's brilliant essay, "Portrait of Sappho". Illustrations.
Download or read book Sappho Love Songs Other Fragments written by Sappho and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sappho - Love Songs & Other Fragments Public Domain Poets #15 Publicdomainpoets.com Sappho (c. 630-570 B.C.) was born into a wealthy family from the island of Lesbos, and is said to have had 3 brothers. She probably took up poetry early in life, and would go on to be one of the most highly regarded lyric poets of her time. This collection brings together a generous helping of her surviving fragments, translated by James Easby-Smith (1891) & Edward Storer (1919), alongside a selection of others from various sources (1885-1924), with a 'Foreword' by Edward Storer. New edition designed and edited by Dick Whyte. The moon has set and the Pleiades Have gone. It is midnight; the hours pass; and I Sleep alone. Sappho was exiled to Sicily around 600 BC, but continued to write until around 570 BC. While known to be a prolific poet, much of her work was later destroyed by the Church, in large part because her love poetry was addressed to women: - some 10,000 lines reduced to fragments. It was translations of these incomplete verses, and specifcally their (unintentional) fragmentation, which would go on to influence early 'free verse' and Imagist poets, including Edward Storer, H.D., Amy Lowell, Marie Tudor Garland (et al.). Love shakes my soul. So do the oak-trees on the mountain Shake the wind. Storer, a founding member of one of the earliest English-language 'free verse' circles, went on to publish his own translations of Sappho's fragments in 1915, seemingly drawing on English-language versions of Japanese tanka and haikai as models. Other well-known translations at the time included Henry Wharton (1885), James Easby-Smith (1891), J.R. Tutin (1903), etc. Divine shell, Your song. Public Domain Press is dedicated to producing new editions of out-of-print poetry, particularly with regard to compressed & fragmented 'free verse' from the late-1800s & early-1900s. All poems start as facsimiles - to preserve original fonts - which are cleaned up, edited, and spaciously laid-out, adorned with illustrations, and ornaments from the books and magazines they originally appeared in. These are not simply "reprints" of previously existing books, but newly crafted collections, lovingly edited from public domain material, for the serious poetry lover.
Download or read book Stung with Love written by Sappho and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the poems and fragments of the ancient Greek poet's surviving work, displaying the wide variety of themes in her work, from amorous songs celebrating adolescent females to poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, and remembrance.
Download or read book Stung with Love Poems and Fragments of Sappho written by Sappho and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Poems of Sappho written by Sappho and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems of Sappho written by Sappho and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Tenth Muse" sings to both sexes of desire, rapture, and sorrow. This concise collection of the ancient Greek poet's surviving works was assembled and translated by a distinguished classicist.
Download or read book Searching for Sappho The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet written by Philip Freeman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the fascinating poetry, life, and world of Sappho, including a complete translation of all her poems. For more than twenty-five centuries, all that the world knew of the poems of Sappho—the first woman writer in literary history—were a few brief quotations preserved by ancient male authors. Yet those meager remains showed such power and genius that they captured the imagination of readers through the ages. But within the last century, dozens of new pieces of her poetry have been found written on crumbling papyrus or carved on broken pottery buried in the sands of Egypt. As recently as 2014, yet another discovery of a missing poem created a media stir around the world. The poems of Sappho reveal a remarkable woman who lived on the Greek island of Lesbos during the vibrant age of the birth of western science, art, and philosophy. Sappho was the daughter of an aristocratic family, a wife, a devoted mother, a lover of women, and one of the greatest writers of her own or any age. Nonetheless, although most people have heard of Sappho, the story of her lost poems and the lives of the ancient women they celebrate has never been told for a general audience. Searching for Sappho is the exciting tale of the rediscovery of Sappho’s poetry and of the woman and world they reveal.
Download or read book The Songs of Sappho written by Sappho and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lyra Graeca written by John Maxwell Edmonds and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Love Lyrics written by Sappho and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sappho's love poems have delighted and entranced readers for well over two thousand years.
Download or read book The New Sappho written by Sappho and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-13 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Download or read book Love Songs written by Ted Gioia and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers the unexplored history of the love song, from the fertility rites of ancient cultures to the sexualized YouTube videos of the present day, and discusses such topics as censorship, the legacy of love songs, and why it is a dominant form of modernmusical expression.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Sappho written by P. J. Finglass and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed up-to-date survey of the most important woman writer from Greco-Roman antiquity. Examines the nature and context of her poetic achievement, the transmission, loss and rediscovery of her poetry, and the reception of that poetry in cultures far removed from ancient Greece, including Latin America, India, China, and Japan.
Download or read book Sappho s Leap written by Erica Jong and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Fear of Flying brings the seductive Greek poet to life in this “enormously entertaining” tale (Booklist). As she stands poised at the edge of a precipice in the shadow of the sanctuary of Apollo, the greatest love poet who ever was or ever will be recalls the eventful fifty years that have led her to this moment. It was love that seduced her, at age sixteen, into an ill-fated plot with the poet Alcaeus to depose the despot of the island of Lesbos. It was love that made her trade the unwanted marriage bed of an old, despised, and drunken husband for a seemingly endless series of lovers, both male and female. For Sappho, life has always been a banquet to be savored to the fullest, a strange and sensual odyssey that has carried her to the far corners of the ancient world. Devoted to the goddess Aphrodite and granted the gift of immortal song, she has followed her magnificent destiny from Delphi to Egypt, to the land of the Amazons, the realm of the centaurs, and into the stygian depths of Hades itself, often in the company of her companion and friend, the fabulist slave Aesop. Through every grand affair and every wild adventure, she has remained forever true to her heart, her passion, and herself, right up to this, the end of everything. Combining evocative and realistic detail with unabashedly outrageous invention, Erica Jong’s Sappho’s Leap is a flawless gem of historical fiction boldly imagined by one of America’s most enthralling storytellers. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erica Jong including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
Download or read book Sweetbitter Love written by Sappho and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this translation of the Greek poetess's work, Barnstone remains faithful to the words of the fragments, only very judiciously filling in a word or phrase in cases where the meaning is obvious.
Download or read book Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry Theories and Models written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry foregrounds innovative approaches to the question of genre, what it means, and how to think about it for ancient Greek poetry and performance. Embracing multiple definitions of genre and lyric, the volume pushes beyond current dominant trends within the field of Classics to engage with a variety of other disciplines, theories, and models. Eleven papers by leading scholars of ancient Greek culture cover a wide range of media, from Sappho’s songs to elegiac inscriptions to classical tragedy. Collectively, they develop a more holistic understanding of the concept of lyric genre, its relevance to the study of ancient texts, and its relation to subsequent ideas about lyric.
Download or read book The Poems of Sappho written by John Myers O'Hara and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
