num_pages: 202
description: Winner of the Umhoefer Prize: "A magnificent achievement, better, more animated, buoyant, and richly articulated than any other version I know."―Anthony Hecht 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.
language: English
title: Greek Lyric Poetry: A New Translation
titlecomplete: Greek Lyric Poetry: A New Translation
genres: Poetry, Anthologies, Classics, Mythology, History
ratings_count: 86
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Umhoefer Prize
category: Achievement in Humanities, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Society of Midland Authors Award
category: Poetry
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company