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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet

Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet

Freeman, Philip

Paperback

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0393353826
ISBN13: 9780393353822
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Mar 21 2017
Pages: 338
Weight: 0.55
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English

For more than twenty-five centuries, all that the world knew of the poems of Sappho--the first woman writer in literary history--were a few brief quotations preserved by ancient male authors. Yet those meager remains showed such power and genius that they captured the imagination of readers through the ages. But within the last century, dozens of new pieces of her poetry have been found written on crumbling papyrus or carved on broken pottery buried in the sands of Egypt. As recently as 2014, yet another discovery of a missing poem created a media stir around the world.

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