Greek Lyric Poetry: A New Translation

Sherod Santos's new translation of classical poems answers Rosetti's mandate that the only true motive for putting poetry into a fresh language must be to endow a fresh nation...with one more possession of beauty. Arranged into four periods--Classical, Hellenic, Roman, and Early Byzantine--Greek Lyric Poetry features works by such ancient masters as Xenophanes, Callimachus, Sappho, and Simonides. For the general reader as well as for poets and lovers of poetry, the translations celebrate the marvelous slips and illuminating reconfigurations that occur when a poet in the present communes with poets in the past.

Author: Sherod Santos
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/01/2006
Pages: 202
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.76w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780393329155

About the Author
Santos, Sherod: - Sherod Santos is the author of seven books of poetry. A National Book Award finalist, he received an Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Chicago, where he works in an outreach program for the homeless.