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If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

Sappho

Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho’s fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the ragged scraps of papyrus that preserve them, inviting a thrill of discovery and conjecture that can be described only as electric—or, to use Sappho’s words, as “thin fire . . . racing under skin.” By combining the ancient mysteries of Sappho with the contemporary wizardry of one of our most fearless and original poets, If Not, Winter provides a tantalizing window onto the genius of a woman whose lyric power spans millennia.
Sappho: A New Translation

Sappho

These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Mary Barnard's translations are lean, incisive, direct--the best ever published. She has rendered the beloved poet's verses, long the bane of translators, more authentically than anyone else in English.
Sappho - Poems, A New Version

Sappho

This edition reintroduces Sappho to the modern reader, providing a vivid, contemporary translation, which captures the spareness and the intensity of Sappho's line. The wondrous Mary Barnard translation was based, unfortunately, on the 1928 Loeb edition by J.M. Edmonds, who filled in many of Sappho's fragment with his own Greek lines. In Professor Barnstone's brilliant translation, Sappho's work is presented as we have inherited it, in its darkly antiromantic idiom that rejects sentimentality and "prettiness."

Willis Barnstone is one of the most noted translators of today. Barnstone has translated numerous texts, including The Cosmic Fragments of Heraclitus, Greek Lyric Poetry, and a literary translation of the New Testament. He is also the author of New and Selected Poems (1997), Moonbook & Sunbook (1998) and other books of poetry.
Greek Lyric: Sappho and Alcaeus (Loeb Classical Library No. 142)

Sappho, Alcaeus

This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main theme was love; and Alcaeus, poet of wine, war, and politics, and composer of short hymns to the gods. Also included are the principal testimonia, the ancients' reports on the lives and work of the two poets.
The five volumes in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Greek Lyric contain the surviving fragments of solo and choral song. This poetry was not preserved in medieval manuscripts, and few complete poems remain. Later writers quoted from the poets, but only so much as suited their needs; these quotations are supplemented by papyrus texts found in Egypt, most of them badly damaged. The high quality of what remains makes us realise the enormity of our loss.
Volume I presents Sappho and Alcaeus. Volume II contains the work of Anacreon, composer of solo song; the Anacreontea; and the earliest writers of choral poetry, notably the seventh-century Spartans Alcman and Terpander. Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides, and other sixth-century poets are in Volume III. Bacchylides and other fifth-century poets are in Volume IV along with Corinna (although some argue that she belongs to the third century). Volume V contains the new school of poets active from the mid-fifth to the mid-fourth century and also collects folk songs, drinking songs, hymns, and other anonymous pieces.
The Love Songs of Sappho (Literary Classics)

Sappho

Passionate and breathtaking, Sappho's poems survive only in fragments following religious conspiracies to silence her. Sappho penned immortal verse on the intense power of the female libido; on the themes of romance, love, yearning, heartbreak, and personal relationships with women. This work retains the standard numerical order of the fragments and has been arranged in six sections.
The Sappho Companion

Sappho
Sappho: Poems & Fragments

Sappho
Sappho the Poems: The Poems

Sappho
Classical Love Poetry: An Anthology of Greek and Latin Amorous Verse (Poems)

Homer, Sappho, Anacreon, Euripides, Theocritus, Moschus, Lucretius, Gaius Valerius Catullus, Publio Maron Virgilio, Horace, Tibullus, Ovid, Juvenal
Poems By Sappho

Sappho

It was you, Atthis, who said "Sappho, if you will not get up and let us look at you I shall never love you again!
Gedichte

Anacreon, Sappho

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1800 edition by Friedrich Bohn, Lübeck-Leipzig.
Sappho Fragments (Parentheses Writing Series)

Sappho

ancient Greek, tr Williams
Sappho says--: Poems and fragments of Sappho of Lesbos

Sappho

A collection of poems and fragments by Sappho of Lesbos.
Sappho: A Garland : The Poems and Fragments of Sappho

Sappho
Sappho: Lyrics in the Original Greek with Translations by Willis Barnstone (Doubleday Anchor Original)

Sappho
Songs of Sappho

English translations of "most poetic" 124 pieces out of possible 209 by Greek lyric poet Sappho.