Sappho/Bliss

Sappho/Bliss
Author: Sappho Sappho
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781480094994

The ancient world revered Sappho's poetry. Today, her work survives only in fragments. Canada's poet laureate, Bliss Carman loved those fragments. In the late Victorian Era, Carman cemented together Sappho's verses with his own poetry. The result is a sensual, musical, erotic and ravishing literary mosaic.

Re-Reading Sappho

Re-Reading Sappho
Author: Ellen Greene
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1996
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780520206038

The essays in this volume review the seemingly endless permutations wrought on Sappho through centuries of readings and re-writings.

Dweller in Shadows

Dweller in Shadows
Author: Kate Kennedy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2023-07-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0691218552

The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylum Ivor Gurney (1890–1937) wrote some of the most anthologized poems of the First World War and composed some of the greatest works in the English song repertoire, such as “Sleep.” Yet his life was shadowed by the trauma of the war and mental illness, and he spent his last fifteen years confined to a mental asylum. In Dweller in Shadows, Kate Kennedy presents the first comprehensive biography of this extraordinary and misunderstood artist. A promising student at the Royal College of Music, Gurney enlisted as a private with the Gloucestershire regiment in 1915 and spent two years in the trenches of the Western Front. Wounded in the arm and subsequently gassed during the Battle of Passchendaele, Gurney was recovering in hospital when his first collection of poems, Severn and Somme, was published. Despite episodes of depression, he resumed his music studies after the war until he was committed to an asylum in 1922. At times believing he was Shakespeare and that the “machines under the floor” were torturing him, he nevertheless continued to write and compose, leaving behind a vast body of unpublished work when he died of tuberculosis. Drawing on extensive archival research and spanning literary criticism, history, psychiatry and musicology, this compelling narrative sets Gurney’s life and work against the backdrop of the war and his institutionalisation, probing the links between madness, suffering and creativity. Facing death in the trenches, Gurney hoped that history might not “forget me quite.” This definitive account of his life and work helps ensure that he will indeed be remembered.

Poems of Sappho

Poems of Sappho
Author: Sappho
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2018-02-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 048681727X

"The Tenth Muse" sings to both sexes of desire, rapture, and sorrow. This concise collection of the ancient Greek poet's surviving works was assembled and translated by a distinguished classicist.

Ode to Aphrodite - The Poems and Fragments of Sappho

Ode to Aphrodite - The Poems and Fragments of Sappho
Author: Sappho
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2022-02-08
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 152879317X

Sappho (c. 630–c. 570 BC) was an Archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos famous for her lyric poetry. Also known by such names as the "Tenth Muse" and "The Poetess", Sappho was a prolific poet widely regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets of ancient times. As well as an extraordinary poet, she also represents a symbol of romantic love between women, the word lesbian and sapphic originating from her name and home island. The majority of Sappho's work is lost and what remains only does so as fragments. Despite this, her work has and continues to influence that of others significantly. This pocket-sized volume contains 45 of Sappho's existing poems and fragments, translated and interpreted by John Myres O'Hara and Henry de Vere Stacpoole. Contents include: "An Introduction by H. De Vere Stacpoole", "Sapphics by Algernon Charles Swinburne", "Poems Translated by John Myres O'hara", and "Fragments Translated by Henry De Vere Stacpoole". Wine Dark Press is proudly publishing this brand new collection of classic poems, now complete with an introductory essay by Charles Swinburne.

The Love Songs of Sappho

The Love Songs of Sappho
Author: Sappho
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2010-01-28
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1616141050

Called the "Tenth Muse" by the ancients, Greece's greatest female lyric poet Sappho (ca. 610-580 B.C.E.) spent the majority of her life on the famed island of Lesbos. Passionate and breathtaking, her poems survive only in fragments, following religious conspiracies to silence her. This excellent translation includes Roche's brilliant essay, "Portrait of Sappho". Illustrations.

Poems and Fragments

Poems and Fragments
Author: Sappho
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780872205918

Presents a Sappho by a poet and translator that treats the fragments as aesthetic wholes, complete in their fragmentariness, and which is also, as the translator puts it: 'ever mindful of performative qualities, quality of voice, changes of voice...'