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Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho
Sweetbitter Love Poems of Sappho
Author: Sappho, Willis Barnstone
Sappho is the greatest lyric poet of antiquity. Plato, a century after her death, referred to her as "the Tenth Muse," and Longinos, in his first-century treatise "On the Sublime," uses her verse to exemplify that transcendent quality in literature. In Sappho's lyrics we hear for the first time in the West the words of an individual woman of her...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781590301753
ISBN-10: 1590301757
Publication Date: 12/12/2006
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Shambhala
Book Type: Hardcover
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