The Sappho Companion
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (813 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0701165863 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 478 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This anthology of Sappho's wonderful lyrics, all translated into English, is bound together by a discussion of what we know about her life and the transmission of her personal story and poems in the works of antiquity and the Middle Ages through to the Pre-Raphaelites and the present day.
All About Sappho If you're a Sappho fan, you get everything in this book: her poems and fragments in the original Greek, followed by renderings by poets from Catullus and Ovid onward; her history, as much as is known; commentary on her by writers through the ages; and others' poems based on her work. The extant body of Sappho's work is so slender that . rottenbook said NOT yawn!. I don't know what the previous reviewer is talking about; I loved this book. Granted, I am no scholar of Sappho. Although I have read various translations of her poetry in the past, I do not read Greek and cannot comment upon whether Reynolds' research is accurate. However, given her amazing previous work (editing Aurora Leigh, the Pen. "A lovely and loving excursion with Sappho through the centuries" according to David Cope. This is a lovely and loving book on the ways Sappho's poems and the stories about her have been received and reinterpreted by the generations since she wrote. Reynolds discusses the general trends of each period, analyzes how Sappho's work resonated both as a cultural touchstone and in the works of poets and authors of the period; afte
The only book that compares to The Sappho Companion in its breadth and imaginative vigor is Charles Sprawson's lyrical book on swimming, Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero, in which the swan-diving Sappho makes an appearance. --Regina Marler. You don't need to know a thing about Sappho to relish this book, but for true enthusiasts, it makes a good companion volume for Yopie Prins's Victorian Sappho, Paige DuBois's Sappho is Burning, and Anne Carson's brilliant meditation, Eros: The Bittersweet. A sweeping look at the persistence of the Greek poet Sappho in the artistic and popular imagination, The Sappho Companion draws on everything from the Roman myths of Sappho to the eighteenth century rediscovery of Herculaneum, with its intr