One Hundred Lyrics - Sappho - Books - Students Universe - 9781645600671 - March 9, 2020
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One Hundred Lyrics

Sappho

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One Hundred Lyrics

Perhaps the most perilous and the most alluring venture in the whole field of poetry is that which Mr. Carman has undertaken in attempting to give us in English verse those lost poems of Sappho of which fragments have survived. The task is obviously not one of translation or of paraphrasing, but of imaginative and, at the same time, interpretive construction. It is as if a sculptor of to-day were to set himself, with reverence, and trained craftsmanship, and studious familiarity with the spirit, technique, and atmosphere of his subject, to restore some statues of Polyclitus or Praxiteles of which he had but a broken arm, a foot, a knee, a finger upon which to build. Mr. Carman's method, apparently, has been to imagine each lost lyric as discovered, and then to translate it; for the indefinable flavour of the translation is maintained throughout, though accompanied by the fluidity and freedom of purely original work.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released March 9, 2020
ISBN13 9781645600671
Publishers Students Universe
Pages 138
Dimensions 140 × 216 × 8 mm   ·   181 g
Language English  

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