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The poetry of Sappho
Today, thousands of years after her birth, in lands remote from her native island of Lesbos and in languages that did not exist when she wrote her poetry in Aeolic Greek, Sappho remains an important name among lovers of poetry and poets alike,. Celebrated throughout antiquity as the supreme Greek poet of love and of the personal lyric, noted especially for her limpid fusion of formal poise, lucid insight, and incandescent passion, today her poetry is also prized for its uniquely vivid participation in a living paganism. Collected in an edition of nine scrolls by scholars in the second century BC, Sappho's poetry largely disappeared when the Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople in 1204. All that remained was one poem and a handful of quoted passages . A century ago papyrus fragments recovered in Egypt added a half dozen important texts to Sappho's surviving works. In 2004 a new complete poem was deciphered and published. By far the most significant discovery in a hundred years, it offers a new and tellingly different example of Sappho's poetic art and reveals another side of the poet, thinking about aging and about the transmission of culture from one generation to the next. Jim Powell's translations represent a unique combination of poetic mastery in English verse and a deep schlolarly engagement with Sappho's ancient Greek. They are incomparably faithful to the literal sense of the Greek poems and, simultaneously, to their forms, preserving the original meters and stanzas while exactly replicating the dramatic action of their sequences of disclosure and the passionate momentum of their sentences. Powell's translations have often been anthologized and selected for use in textbooks, winning recognition among discerning readers as far the best versions in English.
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The Miller's Secret
FRACET MAMAI, an old life player who comes from time to time to spend the evening with me and drink mulled wine, told me a little drama the other night which took place in my mill some 20 years ago. The good man's story touched me, and I am going to try to tell it you, as...
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THE INDISCRETION OF ELSBETH
THE AMERICAN paused. He had evidently lost his way. For the last half hour he had been wandering in a mediaeval town, in a profound mediaeval dream. Only a few days had elapsed since he had left the steamship that carried him hither, and the accents of his own tongue, the idioms of his own people and the sympathetic community of New World tastes and expressions had still filled his mind until he woke up...
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