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... Sappho , known to the Greek and Latin poets as the " Tenth Muse , ” is by now turning over in her grave . About 55 A.D. , Plutarch informs us that this ode was " mixed with fire . " Longinus , about 250 A.D. , reminds us that Sappho's ...
... Sappho , known to the Greek and Latin poets as the " Tenth Muse , ” is by now turning over in her grave . About 55 A.D. , Plutarch informs us that this ode was " mixed with fire . " Longinus , about 250 A.D. , reminds us that Sappho's ...
Page 84
... Sappho : " I found here in Sappho's Greek ... the style I had been groping toward , or perhaps merely hungering for , when I ceased to write poetry a number of years before . It was spare but musical , and had , besides , the sound of ...
... Sappho : " I found here in Sappho's Greek ... the style I had been groping toward , or perhaps merely hungering for , when I ceased to write poetry a number of years before . It was spare but musical , and had , besides , the sound of ...
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... Sappho , " which begins with a direct translation of the famous Sappho fragment , “ about the cool water / the wind sounds ... " but suddenly becomes an intensely personal love poem that runs nearly four pages beyond the opening lines ...
... Sappho , " which begins with a direct translation of the famous Sappho fragment , “ about the cool water / the wind sounds ... " but suddenly becomes an intensely personal love poem that runs nearly four pages beyond the opening lines ...
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Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
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