For 2500 years, poets and readers have been moved and inspired by the writing of Sappho, and the myths that surround her. Born around 630BCE on the Greek island of Lesbos, Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of ancient Greece, ironic and passionate, capturing the troubled depths of love, the beauty of nature, the ceremony of ritual and the power of spiritual longing. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations of romances which ...
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For 2500 years, poets and readers have been moved and inspired by the writing of Sappho, and the myths that surround her. Born around 630BCE on the Greek island of Lesbos, Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of ancient Greece, ironic and passionate, capturing the troubled depths of love, the beauty of nature, the ceremony of ritual and the power of spiritual longing. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations of romances which have gathered around her name, her story and her sexuality. This anthology contains narrative accounts of the way different periods have taken up Sappho's haunting story. We see her image change, re-created in Ovid's poetry and Boccaccio's tales, in translations by Pope, Rossetti and Swinburne and Baudelaire, in the modern versions of Eavan Boland and Jeanetter Winterson. Artists, too, have felt Sappho's power, and this work contains a variety of illustrations: classical statues and pre-Raphaelite paintings, Roman mosaics and Romantic pornography.
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Very Good. Dust jacket has light scratches and outer edges have minor scuffs, book content is in very good readable condition. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards.
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First edition (hardback). 8vo (24cm by 16cm), ix, 422pp. Text illustrations. Original burgundy cloth, dustwrapper. Ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, else the book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 0701165863.
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Very Good-in Very Good-dust jacket. 0701165863. Upper corners bumped. Some pencil notes and underlining. DJ has a bit of chipping and creasing.; 432 pages.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Original hard covers, in dust jacket. Old owner's name neatly to front endpaper. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat--a sound and handsome volume, very nearly as new!
Add this copy of The Sappho Companion to cart. $78.73, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Chatto & Windus.
