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POWELL, J., The Poetry of Sappho. An Expanded Edition, Featuring Newly Discovered Poems. Oxford University Press, 2019. 88p. Paperback. The Sapphic impression of emotion poured out in unpremeditated speech is the product of sophisticated art. Such poetry confronts the translator with a formidable challenge.... Jim Powell is fully aware of the dangers, and speaks of the 'fluidity, ease, grace, and melodic variety' of Sappho's measures. Powell has tried to reproduce the effect. The resulting book is a brilliant success. Powell has shored her fragments against [Sappho's] ruins to give us a garland in which the flowers, though tattered, have not faded. Bernard Knox, The New Republic (Publisher's information). € 19.69 (New) (approx. delivery time: 4 weeks) ISBN: 9780190937386