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Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics
Bliss Carman
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In one hundred lyrical poems Carman strives to recreate the Lost Songs of Sappho, a task he fulfills both with imaginative freedom and great attention to the original fragments.
In one hundred lyrical poems Carman strives to recreate the Lost Songs of Sappho, a task he fulfills both with imaginative freedom and great attention to the original fragments.
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Drawn by the lure of
Beauty and summer
And the sea's secret. 30
VII
The Cyprian came to thy cradle,
When thou wast little and small,
And said to the nurse who rocked thee
"Fear not thou for the child:
"She shall be kindly favoured, 5
And fair and fashioned well,
As befits the Lesbian maidens
And those who are fated to love."
Hermes came to thy cradle,
Resourceful, sagacious, serene, 10
And said, "The girl must have knowledge,
To lend her freedom and poise.
Naught will avail her beauty,
If she have not wit beside.
She shall be Hermes' daughter, 15
Passing wise in her day."
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Community Reviews
This one is a little more complicated for me, because as I realized partway through the book, this isn't actually a straight compilation of the works of a poet I only recently heard about, but rather an imagination of what a book of her poems might be by a later writer, based on what scraps of her p
I would sell my first born child to own a copy of this.
Excellent poems from a long-suppressed woman of ancient Greece, who undoubtedly puts Homer and his clunky, senile rambling to shame.
Piss-poor translation from over 100 years ago that needs be forgotten.
This was a light and breezy read, but you should know that there's no definitive way to tell which parts are originally by Sappho and which by Carman. Not that I'm finding fault because the two voices speak in harmony.
Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics is a book of poems written by the Canadian poet Bliss Carman, first published in 1904. In the introduction to the 1907 edition, Charles G. D. Roberts says that the most plausible theory for the disappearance of Sappho's poems was that they were burnt in Byzantium in 380 AD