Sappho Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

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Title: Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho
Condition: New
Author: Sappho
Translator: Aaron Poochigian
Contributor: Carol Ann Duffy (Introduction by), Aaron Poochigian (Translated by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0140455574
EAN: 9780140455571
ISBN: 9780140455571
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Genre: Poetry & Drama
Release Date: 08/06/2009
Description: More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry - among them poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, resignation and remembrance - that nevertheless enables us to hear the living voice of the poet Plato called the tenth Muse. This is a new translation of her surviving poetry.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 9mm
Item Weight: 123g
Release Year: 2009

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