About this title: Today, thousands of years after her birth, in lands remote from her native island of Lesbos and in languages that did not exist when she wrote her poetry in Aeolic Greek, Sappho remains an important name among lovers of poetry and poets alike,. Celebrated throughout antiquity as the supreme Greek poet of love and of the personal lyric, noted especially for her limpid fusion of formal poise, lucid insight, and incandescent passion, today her poetry is also prized for its uniquely vivid participation in a living paganism. Collected in an edition of nine scrolls by scholars in the second ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780195326727ISBN:0195326725
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780195326727ISBN:0195326725
Description: New. Today, thousands of years after her birth, in lands remote from her native island of Lesbos and in languages that did not exist when she wrote her poetry in Aeolic Greek, Sappho remains an important name among lovers of poetry and poets alike, . read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780195326727ISBN:0195326725
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780195326710ISBN:0195326717
Description: New. Today, thousands of years after her birth, in lands remote from her native island of Lesbos and in languages that did not exist when she wrote her poetry in Aeolic Greek, Sappho remains an important name among lovers of poetry and poets alike, . read more
Description: Good. 0195326717 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
"No wonder people talk about this poetry so much. It's gorgeous and delicate and it surprised me. Makes you wish there were more poems and less fragments."
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