Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (version 2), credited to Bliss Carman, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (version 2) by Bliss Carman. Read in English by Peter Yearsley Sappho lived six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric poetry was peculiarly esteemed and cultivated at the centres of Greek life. The metropolis of this lyric realm was Mitylene of Lesbos, where, amid the myrtle groves and temples, Beauty and Love in their young warmth could fuse the most rigid forms to fluency. Here Sappho was the acknowledged queen of song. Sappho's poetry was venerated for a thousand years, but almost all has been lost to us; only two small odes and a few scintillating fragments surviving. Mr. Carman seems to have imagined each lost lyric as discovered, then to translate it. In the opinion of the reader of these poems, they approach "real poetry", which according to Robert Graves (in "The White Goddess"), constricts the throat and makes a shiver run down the spine. - Summary by From Preface, and from Peter Yearsley

Recording facts

• Recording title: Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (version 2)
• Author credits: Bliss Carman
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 3
• Listed recording duration: 1:22:07

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• Sappho
• love prayer greek gods goddesses

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction — 10:51
2. 01 - Verses 1 to 53 — 34:00
3. 02 - Verses 54 to the end — 37:16

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