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DescriptionThe Sapphic impression of emotion poured out in unpremeditated speech is the product of sophisticated art. Such poetry confronts the translator with a formidable challenge.... Jim Powell is fully aware of the dangers, and speaks of the fluidity, ease, grace, and melodic variety of Sapphos measures. Powell has tried to reproduce the effect. The resulting book is a brilliant success. Powell has shored her fragments against Sapphos] ruins to give us a garland in which the flowers, though tattered, have not faded.--Bernard Knox, The New Republic Graceful, fluent, lucid while respectful of mystery: Jim Powells unsurpassed embodiment of Sappho in English has all the conviction of art.--Robert Pinsky This new edition of The Poetry of Sappho translates all the surviving texts of Sappho that make consecutive poetic sense, including the newly discovered Brothers Ode, Cypris fragment, and other papyrus texts published in 2014. The translation is particularly intent on bringing over into English Sapphos formal mastery along with her sense. It includes summary discussions of Sapphos biography and the history of her texts, an essay on the formal character of her work and its tradition, and notes on the poems.About the AuthorA MacArthur Fellow who has taught at Reed College, the University of Chicago, and the University of California, Berkeley, Jim Powell is the author of two poetry collections, It Was Fever that Made the World and Substrate.
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Vânzător: Elefant.ro
Brand: Oxford University Press, Usa
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