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.
- ISBN10 0520223128
- ISBN13 9780520223127
- Publish Date 8 December 1999 (first published 1 January 1958)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 July 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 124
- Language English