Sappho Sappho

From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek. During her life on the island of Lesbos, Sappho is said to have composed nine books of lyrics. Only one poem has survived complete. In "If Not, Winter", Carson presents all the extant fragments of Sappho's verse, employing brackets and white space to denote missing text - allowing the reader to imagine the poems as they were written. Carson says of her method of "I like to think that, the more I stand out of the way, the more Sappho shows through". Her translation illuminates Sappho's reflections on love and desire, her companions and rivals, the goddess Aphrodite and her own daughter, Kleis. The book brings us an ancient poet brought to life by an empathetic contemporary poet, and is complete with an introduction and notes.

Whether a scholar of the classics or an admirer of fine poetry, this is the only Kindle version of Sappho's work that presents each fragment in the original Greek alongside a concise brand new English translation. A brief biography is also included, as well as an Ancient Greek pronunciation section, allowing you to read aloud and experience the true beauty of Sappho's original text. * new translation of the surviving fragments * includes the recent 2005 discovery of a near complete poem by Sappho. * table of contents to navigate between poems * brief biography to Sappho and her work * UPDATED with two other translations of Sappho's poems Introduction 2011 DUAL TEXT TRANSLATION by Peter Russell 1907 TRANSLATION by Bliss Carman 1910 TRANSLATION by John Myers O’hara Please visit www.delphiclassics.com for more information on our other titles.

'Yes, we did many things, then - all Beautiful ...' Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, sun-soaked Greece and the gods. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Sappho (c.630-570 BCE). Sappho's Stung with Love is available in Penguin Classics.

Except for bits too small to render effectively, the hundred poems and fragments here translated into modern English speech and metric constitute virtually all of Sappho that has come down to us. Considered by the Greeks as their greatest lyric poet, she has long been the bane of translators. Most of her poems are emotional and personal, more in the form of colloquy than soliloquy: they are usually dialogues between Sappho and her friends, forthright attacks on her enemies, or exasperated exchanges with Aphrodite, the omnipotent and pitiless goddess who was both enemy and friend. But Sappho also composed more impersonal songs for girls' choruses to sing at weddings or at festivals in honor of Aphrodite. Even in the little we have left to us, a unique and fascinating woman comes to life, and gives us in flashes of vivid comment and description the very feminine world she lived in twenty-five hundred years ago. A temptation to which many translators of Sappho have succumbed is that of "spinning out" a fragment to make a poem. This, Mary Barnard has studiously avoided. Her translations are lean, incisive, direct. As a result, she has come closer than anyone else in English to "what they say she said."

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Sapfo eli, opetti ja kirjoitti 600-luvulla eKr. Lesboksen saarella Vähän Aasian rannikolla. Hänen tuotannostaan on säilynyt pääasiassa katkelmia, täydellisenä ei monikaan runo. Tästä huolimatta häntä pidetään Hellaan ja koko antiikin suurimpana lyyrikkona. Ja totta on, että rakkauden, eroottisen intohimon laulajana hänelle ei löydy vertaista – ei vielä tänäkään päivänä. Iltatähti, häälaulu sisältää kaikki Sapfon säilyneet tekstit Pentti Saarikosken nautittavina suomennoksina.

Перше повне видання творів лесбоської поетеси Сапфо у перекладі з давньогрецької Андрія Содомори. Незвичайна чутливість до всього прекрасного, отже, й сила та гострота любовного почуття дали поживу легендам, що рано окутали постать славетної уродженки Лесбосу. А незрівнянна поетична майстерність, з якою вона ті почуття оспівувала, просто й щиро, з теплою фольклорною барвою, привели її до найвищого визнання: античність устами Платона йменувала найвидатнішу свою поетесу десятою Музою.

La colección «Poesía portátil» nos brinda en No creo poder tocar el cielo con las manos una traducción inédita de algunos de los escasos textos que se conservan de la poeta griega Safo, figura clave en la tradición poética femenina europea. Considerada la «Décima Musa» por Platón, los fragmentos conservados de la obra de Safo son escasos y constituyen una muestra fundamental de la primera poesía europea. Siendo ya en su época una autoridad, los siglos la han situado como un referente de la literatura femenina que ha inspirado por igual a hombres y mujeres. Los textos que nos quedan de su obra atestiguan una sensualidad intensa y delicada que canta los dolores y la alegría de la pasión amorosa. ------- « ...y cuandoríes seductora. Entonces el corazón me tiembla dentro del pecho, pues en cuanto te miro no me sale ni un hilo de voz . » -------