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The Complete Poems of Sappho
The Complete Poems of Sappho | Willis Barnstone
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Sapphos thrilling lyric verse has been unremittingly popular for more than 2,600 yearscertainly a record for poetry of any kindand love for her art only increases as time goes on. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems, her mystique endures to be discovered anew by each generation, and to inspire new efforts at bringing the spirit of her Greek words faithfully into English. In the past, translators have taken two basic approaches to Sappho: either very literally translating only the words in the fragments, or taking the liberty of reconstructing the missing parts. Willis Barnstone has taken a middle course, in which he remains faithful to the words of the fragments, only very judiciously filling in a word or phrase in cases where the meaning is obvious. This edition includes extensive notes and a special section of "Testimonia": appreciations of Sappho in the words of ancient writers from Plato to Plutarch. Also included are a glossary of all the figures mentioned in the poems, and suggestions for further reading.
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1- the Complete Poems of Sappho, c. 550 BCE
2- I have a soft spot for a duology, but I'm also very happy with a long / open ended series if the genre is appropriate for that.
3- The Expanse, though it had to end sometime and that was a good place to end it.

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mariaku21
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My first time reading Sappho and I'm more interested in the woman behind the few words collected here.⁠
This collection, while complete, is still not. These translated words are but pieces of what are larger poems or songs.

These are the remnants of what the world has left of Sappho and in between her words, there's a tenderness, a longing, a quietness that I don't find in today's modern poetry.⁠

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Demeter2112
The Complete Poems of Sappho | Willis Barnstone
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GoneFishing

Stand and face me, my love,
and scatter the grace in your eyes.

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