If Not, Winter (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Sappho
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Homosexuality or homosexuals, Literature, Poetry or poets, Women, Gods or goddesses, Songs or songwriters, Greek or Roman times, Greece or Greek people, Happiness, Winter
Anne Carson’s new translation of Sappho’s poetry focuses on the theme of fragmentation. Although Sappho was one of the ancient world’s most influential and celebrated poets, only one of her works has survived intact. The rest of her poetry is known only from the merest fragments. Ancient authors will sometimes quote a stanza, line, or individual word and identify it as appearing in one of the books of Sappho. In addition, a few dried bits of papyrus have survived bearing several words that can be identified—certainly or at least plausibly—as coming from the lost poems of...
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