http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Rexroth Posts tagged with 'Rexroth' at MetaFilter. Sat, 02 Oct 2004 22:04:03 -0800 Sat, 02 Oct 2004 22:04:03 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/35996/Sappho%2DPoem%2Dof%2DJealousy%2D26%2DTranslations <small>Are you not amazed at how she evokes soul, body, hearing, tongue, sight, skin, as though they were external and belonged to someone else? And how at one and the same moment she both freezes and burns, is irrational and sane, is terrified and nearly dead, so that we observe in her not a single emotion but a whole concourse of emotions? Such things do, of course, commonly happen to people in love. Sappho’s supreme excellence lies in the skill with which she selects the most striking and vehement circumstances of the passions and forges them into a coherent whole. &nbsp;&nbsp;Longinus, <em>On the Sublime</em></small> <br><a href="http://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/passages/sappho.htm" title="Sappho: Poem of Jealousy (26 Translations)">Sappho’s poem of jealousy</a> survives only because the ancient critic Longinus quoted it as a supreme example of poetic intensity--now Ken Knabb has put up 26 translations of it in the English at the <em><a href="http://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/index.htm" title="Recommended Readings from Literature to Revolution">Gateway to the Vast Realms </a></em>, the literature and texts section of his <a href="http://www.bopsecrets.org/index.shtml" title="Making petrified conditions dance by singing them their own tune . . . . . Don't call us, do it yourself">Bureau of Public Secrets</a>. And wait! There's more! tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.35996 Sat, 02 Oct 2004 22:04:03 -0800 Beauty Bunting Classics Greek Poetry Rexroth Sappho Sublime Timeless Transcendant y2karl