Dimensions
140 x 211 x 18mm
Sherod Santos's new translation of classical poems answers Rossetti's mandate that "the only true motive for putting poetry into a fresh language must be toe endow a fresh nation ... with one more possession of beauty." Arranged into four periods - Classical, Hellenic, Roman and Early Byzantine - this work 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.
