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Sappho : A New Translation

SapphoFitts, Dudley(Foreword by)Barnard, Mary(Translated by)
Part of the World literature in translation series
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These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet.

Mary Barnard's translations are lean, incisive, direct—the best ever published.

She has rendered the beloved poet's verses, long the bane of translators, more authentically than anyone else in English.  

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0520305566 / 9780520305564
Paperback / softback
884.01
07/05/2019
United States
English
128 pages
127 x 197 mm, 136 grams