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  2. Poetry of Sappho - Wikipedia

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    Sappho was an ancient Greek lyric poet from the island of Lesbos. She wrote around 10,000 lines of poetry, only a small fraction of which survives. Only one poem is known to be complete; in some cases as little as a single word survives.

  3. Sappho - Wikipedia

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    Sappho probably wrote around 10,000 lines of poetry; today, only about 650 survive. [4] She is best known for her lyric poetry , written to be accompanied by music. [ 4 ] The Suda also attributes to her epigrams , elegiacs , and iambics ; three of these epigrams are extant, but are in fact later Hellenistic poems inspired by Sappho. [ 48 ]

  4. Tithonus poem - Wikipedia

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    The Tithonus poem, also known as the Old age poem or (with fragments of another poem by Sappho discovered at the same time) the New Sappho, [a] is a poem by the archaic Greek poet Sappho. It is part of fragment 58 in Eva-Maria Voigt's edition of Sappho. [b] The poem is from Book IV of

  5. Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene - Wikipedia

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    Inspired by the writing on Sappho by Algernon Swinburne, including Swinburne's poem Anactoria, Solomon believed Erinna to have been a companion of Sappho on Lesbos during the late 7th century BC (a common misconception at that time, possibly due to a fragment of Sappho's poetry mentioning "Eranna").

  6. Sappho: A New Translation - Wikipedia

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    Sappho: A New Translation is a 1958 book by Mary Barnard with a foreword by Dudley Fitts. Inspired by Salvatore Quasimodo 's Lirici Greci ( Greek Lyric Poets ) and encouraged by Ezra Pound , with whom Barnard had corresponded since 1933, she translated 100 poems of the archaic Greek poet Sappho into English free verse .

  7. Sappho 31 - Wikipedia

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    Sappho 31 is a lyric poem by the Archaic Greek poet Sappho of the island of Lesbos. [a] The poem is also known as phainetai moi (φαίνεταί μοι lit. ' It seems to me ') after the opening words of its first line. It is one of Sappho's most famous poems, describing her love for a young woman.

  8. Sappho 96 - Wikipedia

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    André Lardinois argues that parallels between lines 4–5 and 21, and the repetition of stanzas ending with mentions of gods at lines 8, 26, and 29, suggest Sappho 96 is a single long poem; [10] while Gregory Hutchinson thinks that a new poem probably began at line 21, as that stanza would not make sense as a continuation of the first part of ...

  9. Sappho 16 - Wikipedia

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    [a] It is from Book I of the Alexandrian edition of Sappho's poetry, and is known from a second-century papyrus discovered at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt at the beginning of the twentieth century. Sappho 16 is a love poem – the genre for which Sappho was best known – which praises the beauty of the narrator's beloved, Anactoria , and expresses the ...