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Sappho

Loving Lady of Lesvos, who wrote:

"Although they are only breath, words which I command are immortal" *



Internet Resources: Books:

  • Complete listings for Sappho at Amazon Books includes the following selected titles:
    NOTE: If you link from here to Amazon.com and then buy a new book, 5 to 15% of your purchase price will be donated to the International Committee of the Red Cross.

    (Alphabetical order by translator to English:)
    • *Sappho: A New Translation by Mary Barnard. Foreword by Dudley Fitts. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1958. LC Call No.: PA4408.E5 B3 Dewey No.: 884.2 Paperback (May 1988) Univ California Press; ISBN: 0520011171

    • Sappho - Poems, A New Version by Sappho, Willis Barnstone (Translator), Paperback - 144 pages (September 15, 1999) Consortium Book Sales & Dist; ISBN: 189229513X

    • Sappho and the Greek Lyric Poets by Willis Barnstone (Translator), William E. McCulloh, Tzalopoulou Barnstone (Illustrator) Paperback - 351 pages (December 1988) Schocken Books; ISBN: 0805208313

    • Greek Lyric : Sappho and Alcaeus by David A. Campbell (Translator). Hardcover: (Vol 1 of the Loeb Classical Library) (December 1982) Harvard Univ Pr; ISBN: 0674991575

    • If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, by Sappho, Anne Carson (Translator). Hardcover: 416 pages - (August 20, 2002) Knopf; ISBN: 0375410678

    • Sappho (Everyman's Poetry Library) translations by by Robert Chandler. Paperback - 128 pages (October 1998) Everyman; ISBN: 046087943X

    • Poems and Fragments by Sappho, Stanley Lombardo (Translator)
      Paperback: Hackett Pub Co; ISBN: 0872205916; (March 2002)
      Hardcover (library binding): Hackett Pub Co; ISBN: 0872205924

    • Sappho the Poems, by Sasha Newborn (Translator), Jeanne Morgan (Illustrator) Paperback Revised edition (March 1998) Bandanna Books; ISBN: 0942208110

    • Sappho: A Garland: The Poems and Fragments of Sappho, by Sappho, Jim Powell (Translator). Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux.
      Hardcover: ISBN: 0374253935; (October 1993)
      Paperback: ISBN: 0374524211; Reprint edition (September 1994)

    • The Love Songs of Sappho (Literary Classics) by Sappho, Paul Roche (Translator), Page DuBois (Introduction) Paperback - 251 pages (January 1999) Prometheus Books; ISBN: 157392251X

      Secondary:

    • Sappho's Immortal Daughters, by Margaret Williamson. "Her life is the stuff of legends; her poetry, the source of endless speculation. This book is a search for Sappho through the poetry she wrote, the culture she inhabited, and the myths that have arisen around her. It is an expert and thoroughly engaging introduction to one of the most enduring and enigmatic figures of antiquity."
      Hardcover (November 1995) Harvard University Press; ISBN: 0674789121
      Paperback - 220 pages Reprint edition (March 1998) Harvard Univ Pr; ISBN: 067478913X

  • Check the Library of Congress Catalogs to see what may be available through interlibrary loan.
    http://catalog.loc.gov/

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This page revised June 21, 2002
Last updated: May 3, 2003
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