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.
0 有用 ❤ Lane 2015-10-16 23:54:09
Fool,don't try to bend a stubborn heart.——无视了生词和人名地名,果然阅读起来愉悦多了lol~
2 有用 回輈 2022-03-29 18:48:33
在学校读了两节课,恍然若梦、、这是飘渺、热烈,甚至有些危险的美,就像是沉浮在湖面醉听苍白月色与六弦琴,在清冷的夜里,将自己垂挂在橡树枝桠边,在风吹来的时候一同摇曳。Come to me三个词太具有挑逗性了,总能想到The L Word里Jenny和Marina初见时M说她喜欢Amy Bloom的Silver Water和Come to Me,两篇精美的小说。读完留下很多疑问,可能是对于古希腊不够了... 在学校读了两节课,恍然若梦、、这是飘渺、热烈,甚至有些危险的美,就像是沉浮在湖面醉听苍白月色与六弦琴,在清冷的夜里,将自己垂挂在橡树枝桠边,在风吹来的时候一同摇曳。Come to me三个词太具有挑逗性了,总能想到The L Word里Jenny和Marina初见时M说她喜欢Amy Bloom的Silver Water和Come to Me,两篇精美的小说。读完留下很多疑问,可能是对于古希腊不够了解吧…… Sappho和Aphrodite之间到底有什么关联呢?和Andromeda呢?她的goddess是实指还是虚指?她写的诗,最初的目的和用途是什么?她的作品又如何影响了在她之后的写作者?亟待解答。 (展开)
0 有用 左旋贝 2020-04-21 20:26:17
这个版本好短哦,有空应该看看其他的版本,不过对比了if not, winter那个译文觉得没有这个译文美。比如说开篇的那首: if she flees you now,she will soon pursue you; if she wont accept what you give,.she'll give it; if she doesn't love you, she'll love yo... 这个版本好短哦,有空应该看看其他的版本,不过对比了if not, winter那个译文觉得没有这个译文美。比如说开篇的那首: if she flees you now,she will soon pursue you; if she wont accept what you give,.she'll give it; if she doesn't love you, she'll love you soon now, even unwilling 读这个时候想到了我某个“好朋友”,那么真正的好朋友应该像sappho说的,But stand before me, if you are my friend, and spread the grace that's in your eyes (展开)
2 有用 回輈 2022-03-29 18:48:33
在学校读了两节课,恍然若梦、、这是飘渺、热烈,甚至有些危险的美,就像是沉浮在湖面醉听苍白月色与六弦琴,在清冷的夜里,将自己垂挂在橡树枝桠边,在风吹来的时候一同摇曳。Come to me三个词太具有挑逗性了,总能想到The L Word里Jenny和Marina初见时M说她喜欢Amy Bloom的Silver Water和Come to Me,两篇精美的小说。读完留下很多疑问,可能是对于古希腊不够了... 在学校读了两节课,恍然若梦、、这是飘渺、热烈,甚至有些危险的美,就像是沉浮在湖面醉听苍白月色与六弦琴,在清冷的夜里,将自己垂挂在橡树枝桠边,在风吹来的时候一同摇曳。Come to me三个词太具有挑逗性了,总能想到The L Word里Jenny和Marina初见时M说她喜欢Amy Bloom的Silver Water和Come to Me,两篇精美的小说。读完留下很多疑问,可能是对于古希腊不够了解吧…… Sappho和Aphrodite之间到底有什么关联呢?和Andromeda呢?她的goddess是实指还是虚指?她写的诗,最初的目的和用途是什么?她的作品又如何影响了在她之后的写作者?亟待解答。 (展开)
0 有用 左旋贝 2020-04-21 20:26:17
这个版本好短哦,有空应该看看其他的版本,不过对比了if not, winter那个译文觉得没有这个译文美。比如说开篇的那首: if she flees you now,she will soon pursue you; if she wont accept what you give,.she'll give it; if she doesn't love you, she'll love yo... 这个版本好短哦,有空应该看看其他的版本,不过对比了if not, winter那个译文觉得没有这个译文美。比如说开篇的那首: if she flees you now,she will soon pursue you; if she wont accept what you give,.she'll give it; if she doesn't love you, she'll love you soon now, even unwilling 读这个时候想到了我某个“好朋友”,那么真正的好朋友应该像sappho说的,But stand before me, if you are my friend, and spread the grace that's in your eyes (展开)
0 有用 ❤ Lane 2015-10-16 23:54:09
Fool,don't try to bend a stubborn heart.——无视了生词和人名地名,果然阅读起来愉悦多了lol~