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Sappho: The Mary Barnard Translation (Collector's Edition)

By Sappho, Mary Barnard (Translator), Melissa Mueller (Editor), Dudley Fitts (Foreword by)
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By Sappho, Mary Barnard (Translator), Melissa Mueller (Editor), Dudley Fitts (Foreword by)
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A lavish collector’s edition and authoritative translation of the great lyric poet Sappho—alongside the original Greek for the first time.

The one hundred poems and fragments in this volume are almost all that remains of the legendary poet Sappho. Yet in Mary Barnard’s unparalleled, immensely moving translation, the spirit of Sappho comes alive.

As Melissa Mueller describes in the new introduction to this classic translation, to encounter Sappho in the distinctly original voice of Barnard is ...