Selected Poems: Odes and Fragments

SOPHOCLES. GIBBONS, Reginald, translated by

ISBN 10: 0691130248 / ISBN 13: 9780691130248

Published by Princeton University Press, (New Jersey), 2008

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First printing. 127pp. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Affectionately Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco by the translator.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Selected Poems: Odes and Fragments
• Publisher: Princeton University Press, (New Jersey)
• Publication Date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0691130248
• ISBN 13: 9780691130248
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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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.