Complete with Carson's introduction and notes, it will become the standard translation of Sappho for our time. A bilingual edition of the work of the Greek poet Sappho, in a new translation by Anne Carson. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sapphos fragments, in Greek and in. IF NOT, WINTER gives us an extraordinary ancient poet brought alive by a brilliantly empathetic contemporary poet. In IF NOT, WINTER, Carson presents all the extant fragments of Sapphos verse, employing brackets and white space to denote missing text - allowing the. In IF NOT, WINTER, Carson presents all the extant fragments of Sappho's verse, employing brackets and white space to denote missing text - allowing the reader to imagine the poems as they were written.Ĭarson says of her method of translation: 'I like to think that, the more I stand out of the way, the more Sappho shows through.' And certainly her translation illuminates Sappho's reflections on love and desire, her companions and rivals, the goddess Aphrodite, her own daughter, Kleis. From the critically acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson: a brilliant new translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek.ĭuring her life on the island of Lesbos, Sappho is said to have composed nine books of lyrics. Translated by Anne Carson In the introduction of Carson’s translation of Sappho’s Fragments, If Not, Winter, I read a compelling quote from a writer and translator named Walter Benjamin. Glass, Irony and God by Anne Carson The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson Poems and Fragments by Sappho & translated by Stanley Lombardo Middlemarch by.

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