NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
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NOTES
(The dates given in the text with authors are generally those of floruit, i.e. about the fortieth year.)
I fear Cleopatra was wasted Way back in her misty old realm. As matters befell, she did fairly well But she’d have been great in a film. If Dido and Sappho were with us— They’re advertised widely, you see— And Helen of Troy—good gracious My boy, what movie successes they’d be.
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As friends we’ll part: Win thee a younger bride: Too old, I lack the heart To keep thee at my side.
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I loved thee, Atthis, in the long ago When the great oleanders were in flower In the broad herded meadows full of sun. And we would often at the fall of dusk Wander together by the silver stream, When the soft grass-heads were all wet with dew And purple misted in the fading light, And joy I knew and sorrow at thy voice, And the superb magnificence of love— The loneliness that saddens solitude, And the sweet speech that makes it durable, The bitter longing and the keen desire, The sweet companionship through quiet days In the slow ample beauty of the world And the unutterable glad release Within the temple of the holy night; O Atthis, how I loved thee long ago In that fair perished summer by the sea.
Gold is the son of Zeus, Immortal, bright; Nor moth nor worm may eat it, Nor rust tarnish. So are the Muse’s gifts The offspring fair, That merit from high heaven Youth eternal.
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O, that I could make her, whom I love best, Find in a face, with misery wrinkled, Find in a heart, with sighs over ill-pined, Her cruel hatred.
In Davison’s Poetical Rhapsody, 1602, are some Sapphics by the mysterious “A. W.” Here is a sample:
Hatred eternal, furious revenging, Merciless raging, bloody persecuting; Slanderous speeches, odious revilings; Causeless abhorring.
In 1601 Campion and Roseter, Lyrics, Elegies, etc., give a clumsy example of Sapphic verse. In 1614 a tract called The Martyrdom of Saint George of Cappadocia contains at the end some “Sapphicks” which resemble the real Sappho only in having the same number of syllables to the verse. Cox and all others, so far as I know, fail to mention Sir Philip Sidney’s translation of the second ode.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RECENT BOOKS ON SAPPHO
Aly, see Pauly-Wissowa.
Bascoul, J. M. F., La chaste Sappho de Lesbos et le mouvement féministe à Athènes au IVe siècle av. J. C. Paris. 1911.
Bascoul, J. M. F., La chaste Sappho de Lesbos et Stésichore. Les prétendues amies de Sappho. Paris, 1913.
Bergk, Th., Poetae Lyrici Graeci. Vol. III, Leipzig, 1914.
Bethe, E., Griechische Lyrik. Berlin, 1920.
Brandt, Lida R., Social Aspects of Greek Life in the Sixth Century B.C. Philadelphia, 1921.
Brandt, P., Sappho, ein Lebensbild aus den Frühlingstagen altgriechischer Dichtung. Leipzig, 1905.
Bunner, Anne, see Wharton.
Carman, Bliss, Sappho, One Hundred Lyrics. Boston, 1904.
Carroll, M., Greek Women. Philadelphia, 1907.
Christ, W. von—Schmid, W., Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur. Munich, 1912.
Cox, E. M., Sappho and the Sapphic Metre in English. London, 1916. Poems of Sappho. London, New York, 1924.
Cipollini, A., Saffo. Milan, 1890.
Croiset, A., Histoire de la Litterature Grecque (vol. II, pp. 226-244). Paris, 1898.
De Courten, Maria L. G., Saffo (Supplementi ad “Aegyptus”). Milan, 1921.
Diehl, E., Supplementum lyricum[3] (Kleine Texte, 33-34). Bonn, 1917.
Edmonds, J. M., The New Fragments of Alcaeus, Sappho and Corinna. Cambridge, 1909.
Edmonds, J. M., Sappho in the Added Light of the New Fragments. Cambridge, 1912. (Has some poetical translations.)
Edmonds, J. M., Lyra Graeca, I, in The Loeb Classical Library. New York, 1922. [Abbreviated as E.]
Edmonds, J. M., Various articles in Classical Review, Classical Quarterly and Cambridge Philological Society’s Proceedings, from 1909 to 1922.
Farnell, G. S., Greek Lyric Poetry. London, 1891.
Glaser, R., Sappho, die zehnte Muse (Südwest-deutsche Monatsblätter). 1916.
Grenfell, B. P., and Hunt, A. S., The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vols. I-XV, especially I, X, and XV. London, 1898. 1922.
Higginson, T. W., Atlantic Essays. Boston, 1871.
Latini, Giov., Saffo, Mimnermo e Catullo. Viterbo, 1914.
Lavagnini, B., I Lirici Greci. Turin, 1923.
Lobel, E., Sappho. Oxford, 1925.
Mackail, J. W., Lectures on Greek Poetry (pp. 83-112). London and New York, 1911.
Meabe, T., Saffo (Spanish translation). Paris, 1913.
Merino, A. Fernandez, Estudios de Literatura Griega. Safo ante la crítica moderna.[3] Madrid, 1884.
Meunier, M., Sappho, Traduction nouvelle de tous les fragments. (Has not recent fragments.) Paris, 1911.
Milburn, Lucy McD., Lost Letters from Lesbos. Chicago, 1902.
Miller, Marion Mills, and Robinson, D. M. The Songs of Sappho (Greek text of all Sappho, of all the epigrams about her, of Erinna, of the new papyrus biography of Sappho, etc., prepared and annotated and literally translated by D. M. Robinson.) Introduction on The Recovery and Restoration of the Egyptian Relics of Sappho and a critical Memoir of the Real Sappho by D. M. Robinson. Introduction by M. M. Miller on the Sapphic Metre, and Poetical Adaptations of Sappho. New York, 1924.
Mustard, W. P., Classical Echoes in Tennyson. New York, 1904.
O’Hara, J. M., The Poems of Sappho. Portland, 1910.
Osborn, Percy, Poems of Sappho. London, 1909.
Pasella, Pietro, I Frammenti di Alceo e di Saffo tradotti. Rome, 1922.
Patrick, Mary Mills, Sappho and the Island of Lesbos. Boston, 1914. Reprinted, 1924.
Pauly-Wissowa,—Kroll-Witte, Real-Encyclopädie. Exhaustive article on Sappho by Aly. Stuttgart, 1920.
Petersen, W., The Lyric Songs of the Greeks. Translated into English Verse. Boston, 1918.
Reinach, Th., Pour mieux connaître Sappho (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres). Paris, 1911.
Robinson, D. M. See Miller-Robinson.
Scollard, C. L.,—Jones, T. S., Sapphics. Clinton, N. Y., 1910.
Sitzler, J., Bibliography on Sappho in Bursian (Kroll) Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft. CXXXIII, 1907, pp. 104 ff., pp. 176 ff., CLXXVIII, 1919, pp. 46 ff.
Smith, J. S. Easby, Songs of Sappho. Washington, D. C., 1891.
Smyth, H. W., Greek Melic Poets. London, 1900.
Stacpoole, H. D. V., Sappho, a new rendering. London 1920.
Stanley, Albert A., Greek Themes in Modern Musical Settings. (Includes, pp. 1-68, Music to Percy Mackaye’s Sappho and Phaon). University of Michigan Humanistic Studies, XV, 1923.
Stebbing, W., Greek and Latin Anthology thought into English Verse. Part III, Greek Epigrams and Sappho. Adaptations and Expansions of Sappho. None of the new fragments included. London, 1923.
Steiner, B., Sappho. Jena, 1907.
Storer, Edward, Sappho (Poets Translation Series). London, 1916.
Tucker, T. G., Sappho. Melbourne, Australia, 1914.
Tutin, J. R., Sappho, The Queen of Song. London and Boston, 1914.
Vivien, Renée [pseudonym of an American lady, Pauline Tam, 1877-1909, who lived in Paris], Sappho, traduction nouvelle avec le texte grec. Paris, 1903. Reprinted in the anonymous Sappho et huit poetesses grecques. Texte et reduction. Paris, 1909.
Wagner, R., Übersetzung der grösseren Bruchstücke Sapphos im Versmass des Originals nebst erläuternden Bemerkungen. 1916.
Walther, W., Sappho aus dem Griechischen übersetzt. Leipzig, 1914.
Way, A. S., Sappho and The Vigil of Venus. London, 1920.
Way, A. S., Sappho. London, 1923.
Wharton, H. T., Sappho, memoir, text, selected renderings and a literal translation (with a collection also of poetic translations and paraphrases by various authors). First edition, London, 1885. Second edition, London and Chicago, 1887. Third edition, London, 1895. Fourth edition, 1898, and fifth edition, London, 1907. First edition without the revisions of later editions reprinted by Brentano, New York, in 1920, with metrical paraphrases of Sappho by Anne Bunner.
Wilamowitz-Möllendorff, Ulrich von, Textgeschichte der griechischen Lyriker. Berlin, 1901.
Wilamowitz-Möllendorff und Schubart, Berliner Klassikertexte, Heft V. Berlin, 1907.
Wilamowitz-Möllendorff, Ulrich von, Sappho und Simonides (with translations). Berlin, 1913.
Wilamowitz-Möllendorff, Ulrich von, Griechische Verskunst. Berlin, 1921.
Wright, F. A., Feminism in Greek Literature from Homer to Aristotle. New York, 1923.