Sappho Through English Poetry

by Jay, Peter; Lewis, Caroline

• ISBN13: 9780856462733
• ISBN10: 085646273X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

Tracing Sappho's reception in English-language poetry through translations and poems about her.

Author Biography

Peter Jay is a poet who has translated a variety of ancient and modern poets, including Nerval, Pilinszky, Blandiana and Stanescu. He edited The Greek Anthology (Penguin, 1973). He is the editorial director of Anvil Press.

Caroline Lewis is a writer and lecturer specializing in women's writing and history.

 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 10
Introduction	p. 11
A Brief Bibliography	p. 27
'Phainetai moi keinos isos theoisin'	p. 28
'Ille mi par esse deo uidetur'	p. 30
'My muse, what ails this ardour?'	p. 33
'He that sits next to thee now and hears'	p. 34
'Young wanton Cupid's Darts and Bow'	p. 35
Sapho's Ode out of Longinus	p. 36
Melinda on an Insipid Beauty	p. 37
An Hymn to Venus	p. 38
A Fragment of Sappho	p. 40
An Hymn to Venus	p. 41
An Ode on a Young Maid whom she lov'd	p. 42
'The Moon has veil'd her Silver Light'	p. 43
'When Death shall close those Eyes, imperious Dame!'	p. 43
'Dire Love, sweet-bitter Bird of Prey!'	p. 43
An Ode from Sappho, English'd	p. 44
An Hymn to Venus	p. 45
'More happy than the gods is he'	p. 46
Fragment I: 'The Pleiads now no more are seen'	p. 47
Fragment II: 'Whene'er the Fates resume thy breath'	p. 47
Fragment IV: 'Come, gentle mother, cease your sharp reproof'	p. 47
Ode II: 'Happy the youth, who free from care'	p. 48
The Fragments of Sappho: 'The moon, with silver-gleaming eye'	p. 49
'Yet, oh! these fond complaints, dear parent, cease'	p. 49
'Love, thou sweetly-bitter pow'r'	p. 49
'Mother, I can not mind my wheel'	p. 50
from Don Juan: 'Oh Hesperus! thou bringest all good things'	p. 51
The Loves of Sappho and Alcaeus	p. 52
'Artists, raise the rafters high!'	p. 52
One Girl	p. 53
Hymn to Aphrodite	p. 54
'Peer of gods he seemeth to me, the blissful'	p. 55
'Stars that shine around the refulgent full moon'	p. 55
'Lo, Love once more my soul within me rends'	p. 55
Sapphic Fragment	p. 56
Full Moon	p. 57
For Ever Dead	p. 57
from Paterson, Book V: 'Peer of the gods is that man, who'	p. 58
To Atthis	p. 59
Farewell to Anactoria	p. 60
8 'I took my lyre and said'	p. 61
11 'We heard them chanting'	p. 61
12 'It's no use'	p. 61
17 'Sleep, darling'	p. 62
37 'You know the place: then'	p. 62
39 'He is more than a hero'	p. 63
42 'I have had not one word from her'	p. 63
43 'It was you, Atthis, who said'	p. 64
98 'It is the Muses'	p. 65
'Some there are who say that the fairest thing seen'	p. 66
'When we lived all as one, she adored you as'	p. 67
'Thon Time We Aa Wonned'	p. 68
'Til Anaktoria'	p. 68
'Deid sall ye ligg, and ne'er a memorie'	p. 69
'Caller rain frae abune'	p. 69
'Minnie, I canna caa my wheel'	p. 69
from Three Letters to Anaktoria	p. 70
Agallide	p. 71
The Nightingale	p. 71
Love	p. 71
The Apple	p. 72
Her Gifts	p. 72
The Moon	p. 72
Girlhood	p. 73
Children's Song	p. 73
8 'Spring'	p. 74
24 '[ ] that labor [ ]'	p. 74
43 '[ ] Sard [is ]'	p. 75
78 'Before my lying heart could speak for life'	p. 76
101 '[ ] slick with slime [ ]'	p. 77
106 'Stand beside me, worshipped Hera...'	p. 78
146 '[ ] called you'	p. 79
Sappho	p. 80
'Some say nothing on earth excels in beauty'	p. 81
'Gods are not happier than I think he'	p. 81
'Dead and going below you will leave a memory'	p. 82
Sappho to Philaenis	p. 85
Sapho to Phaon	p. 87
Song: 'While Sappho, with harmonious airs'	p. 91
from Sappho to Phaon	p. 92
from Ode on Lyric Poetry	p. 96
from The Adventures of Roderick Random: 'Thy fatal shafts unerring move'	p. 97
Sappho Burns her Books and Cultivates the Culinary Arts	p. 98
Ode XXVI. The Resolve	p. 100
from Sappho and Phaon: Sonnet XXI	p. 101
from Sappho and Phaon: Sonnet XXXIII	p. 101
from Sappho and Phaon: Sonnet XXVI	p. 102
from Sappho and Phaon: Sonnet XLIV. Conclusive	p. 102
Alcaeus to Sappho	p. 103
from Pericles and Aspasia (1836): from XLVII: Cleone to Aspasia	p. 104
from Pericles and Aspasia (1836): from CXLIX: Aspasia to Cleone	p. 104
from Pericles and Aspasia (1836): from CL: Cleone to Aspasia: Sappho to Hesperus	p. 105
from Pericles and Aspasia (1836): Sappho's Expostulation	p. 105
Song from Evenings in Greece	p. 106
The Last Song of Sappho	p. 107
Sappho's Song	p. 109
The Picture of Sappho	p. 110
from Eleanore: VIII	p. 112
Sappho	p. 113
What Sappho would have said had her leap cured instead of killing her	p. 113
Sapphics	p. 116
from Anactoria	p. 118
Katherine Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913) from Long Ago: XIV 'Atthis, my darling, thou did'st stray'	p. 120
Katherine Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913) from Long Ago: XXX 'Thine elder that I am, thou must not cling'	p. 120
Katherine Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913) from Long Ago: XXXV 'Come, Gorgo, put the rug in place'	p. 120
Katherine Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913) from Long Ago: XLIV 'Nought to me! So I choose to say'	p. 121
'Why are women silent? Is it true'	p. 122
from Epithalamium: 'Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings'	p. 123
from More Poems (1936): X 'The weeping Pleiads wester'	p. 123
from More Poems (1936): XI 'The rainy Pleiads wester'	p. 123
from Sappho: One hundred lyrics: V 'O Aphrodite'	p. 124
from Sappho: One hundred lyrics: VI 'Peer of the gods he seems'	p. 125
from Sappho: One hundred lyrics: XXI 'Softly the first step of twilight'	p. 126
from Sappho: One hundred lyrics: XXIII 'I loved thee, Atthis, in the long ago'	p. 127
from Sappho: One hundred lyrics: XLII 'O heart of insatiable longing'	p. 127
from Sappho: One hundred lyrics: LXIII 'A beautiful child is mine'	p. 127
Doricha	p. 128
from The Sisters	p. 129
To Cleis	p. 131
from Sappho: 1	p. 132
[actual symbol not reproducible]	p. 135
Sappho Crosses the Dark River into Hades	p. 136
from For Sappho/After Sappho	p. 137
After an Old Text	p. 139
Cleis	p. 140
The Evening Star	p. 142
Third Epitaph	p. 143
Index to Sappho's Poems	p. 144
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