Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English
by Sappho
Chapter 1 of 7 Sapphics
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- Running time
- 1 h 26 min
- Language
- English
- Read by
- Eva Davis (d. 2025)
- Translated by
- John Myers O'Hara
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About this recording
Who shall strike the wax of mystery from those priceless amphoræ, and give to the unsophisticated nostrils of the average reader the ravishing bouquet of wine pressed in a garden in Mitylene, twenty-five centuries ago? - Maurice Thompson
This is a collection of the poetry of Sappho, in a "rather creative translation" by American poet John Myers O'Hara. - Summary by Carolin