Selected Poems : Odes and Fragments (Signed First Edition)

Sophocles ; Reginald Gibbons (Translated and Introduced by)

ISBN 10: 0691130248 / ISBN 13: 9780691130248

Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008

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Publisher's original green paper covered boards with black linen backstrip and spine, gilt titles to spine. Plain olive green endpapers. viii+127pp. Dedication on title page from the author to Professor Edith Hall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Selected Poems : Odes and Fragments (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691130248
• ISBN 13: 9780691130248
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Sophocles' tragedies--from Antigone to Oedipus Tyrannus--are filled with highly wrought, vivid, and emotionally powerful poetry. Yet most translations sacrifice the poetry to convey only the sense of the lines as dramatic speech. This is the first book in English to present Sophocles exclusively as a poet, and the only volume to reveal the full force and beauty of his verse. With a fresh and consistent attention to structure, language, and rhythm across Sophocles' writings, Reginald Gibbons has translated a selection of odes from Sophocles' surviving plays as well as fragments from his lost works. What emerges is a genuinely new sense of a Sophocles who was as much poet as dramatist. Bringing the Greek poet and his world surprisingly close to us, these translations also restore a sense of the long continuity of poetry. Complete with an introduction, this edition reveals Sophocles' poetic brilliance as never before.

About the Author

Reginald Gibbons is a poet, translator, and professor of English and classics at Northwestern University. He has translated Sophocles' "Antigone" and Euripides' "Bakkhai" (both with the late Charles Segal). His most recent collection of poetry is "Creatures of a Day".