More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry—among them poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, resignation and remembrance—that nevertheless enables us to hear the living voice of the poet Plato called the tenth Muse. This is a new translation of her surviving poetry. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Mary Barnard Orden de los libros (cronológico)
Mary Barnard fue una notable poeta y traductora estadounidense cuya obra a menudo se inspiró en la mitología y la literatura clásica griega. Sus poemas se distinguen por su lenguaje preciso y su profunda exploración de temas como el tiempo, la identidad y la experiencia femenina. Barnard ganó reconocimiento por sus traducciones de textos antiguos y colecciones de poesía original, lo que le valió elogios de la crítica. Su escritura representa una fusión única de tradición antigua y sensibilidad poética moderna.
