Sappho

Broschiertes Buch

Stung with Love

Poems and Fragments

Mitarbeit: Duffy, Carol Ann;Übersetzung: Poochigian, Aaron

Beschreibung

150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of Turkey. Little remains of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. This title covers this surviving texts that consists of fragmented body of lyric poetry.

Autor

Sappho was born sometime between 630 and 617 BCE and died around 570. Little of certainty is known about her life. A native of the island of Lesbos, she resided in its largest city, Mytilene. She composed songs for choral and solo performance on a wide range of themes but is best known for amatory songs focusing on adolescent females. She is renowned as the first woman poet in literary history, and her songs have been universally admired throughout antiquity and modernity. Aaron Poochigian was born in 1973. He was a visiting professor of Classics at the University of Utah and is currently D.L. Jordon Fellow at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. His poems and translations have appeared in a number of journals, including Chimaera, Classical Journal, and Unsplendid. Carol Ann Duffy's poetry has received every major award in Britain, including the Whitbread and the Forward prized for Mean Time and the T.S. Eliot Award for Rapture. In the United States, she has received the E.M. Forster and Lannan Awards. She has also written extensively for children and has editied many anthologies.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 43137
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 123mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 114g
• ISBN-13: 9780140455571
• ISBN-10: 0140455574
• Artikelnr.: 26217361