Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Sappho
- Cambridge Companions to Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to Sappho
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Contexts
- Part II Poetics
- Chapter 7 Sappho and Genre
- Chapter 8 Performing Sappho
- Chapter 9 Sappho’s Metres and Music
- Chapter 10 Sappho’s Dialect
- Chapter 11 Sappho’s Poetic Language
- Chapter 12 Sappho’s Personal Poetry
- Chapter 13 Sappho’s Lyric Sensibility
- Chapter 14 Myth in Sappho
- Chapter 15 The Gods in Sappho
- Part III Transmission
- Part IV Receptions
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index to the Reception of Sappho
- Plate Section
- References
Chapter 11 - Sappho’s Poetic Language
from Part II - Poetics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 April 2021
- The Cambridge Companion to Sappho
- Cambridge Companions to Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to Sappho
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Contexts
- Part II Poetics
- Chapter 7 Sappho and Genre
- Chapter 8 Performing Sappho
- Chapter 9 Sappho’s Metres and Music
- Chapter 10 Sappho’s Dialect
- Chapter 11 Sappho’s Poetic Language
- Chapter 12 Sappho’s Personal Poetry
- Chapter 13 Sappho’s Lyric Sensibility
- Chapter 14 Myth in Sappho
- Chapter 15 The Gods in Sappho
- Part III Transmission
- Part IV Receptions
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index to the Reception of Sappho
- Plate Section
- References
Summary
The study of poetry is a study of technique – metaphor, simile, sound, syntax, and so on. Chapter 11 of The Cambridge Companion to Sappho illuminates the technical features of Sappho’s poetry, to help us understand why she was so famous an example of lyric expression in the ancient world.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Sappho , pp. 147 - 162Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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