Alcaeus: Poems & Fragments
The complete Poems & Fragments of Alcaeus is now finally available as a paperback book and as an e-book in R J Dent’s sensitive modern English translation.
Alcaeus was a fellow countryman and contemporary of Sappho, and his beautiful and delicate poetry is often overshadowed by Sappho’s reputation. R J Dent has now translated all of Alcaeus’s Poems & Fragments from ancient Greek into lively modern English in an attempt to rescue Alcaeus’s ethereal poetry from obscurity.
There is no other published translation of Alcaeus: Poems & Fragments in existence.
Here is a review of Alcaeus: Poems & Fragments:
http://hastingsonlinetimes.co.uk/arts-culture/literature/a
R J Dent’s translation of Alcaeus: Poems and Fragments is now available as a paperback book and an e-book from Circaidy Gregory Press:
http://www.circaidygregory.co.uk/poetry.htm
and from Amazon.co.uk:
Product Details:
Title: Alcaeus: Poems & Fragments (paperback edition)
ISBN 978-1-906451-53-0
Title: Alcaeus: Poems & Fragments [e-book Edition]
978-1-906451-54-7
Translator: R J Dent
© R J Dent (2012)
Formats: Paperback and e-book
Language: English
R J Dent’s published works include a novel, Myth; translations of Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil & Artificial Paradise; of Le Comte de Lautréamont’s The Songs of Maldoror; of Alcaeus’s Poems & Fragments; a Gothic novella, Deliverance; a poetry collection, Moonstone Silhouettes, and various stories, articles, essays, poems, etc, in a wide range of magazines, periodicals and journals, including Orbis, Philosophy Now, Acumen and Writer’s Muse.
R J Dent’s Amazon page can be found at:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/R.-J.-Dent
Details of R J Dent’s other works – novels, novellas, translations, stories, poems, essays and songs – are available on www.rjdent.com
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November 4, 2011 at 5:46 am |
I had no idea there was a version of Alcaeus’s poems available.
Is it only in kindle format? I could do with a paperback version.
November 21, 2011 at 4:22 pm |
It’s great to have a modern English version of Alcaeus’s complete poems and fragments finally available.
December 7, 2011 at 4:38 am |
Nice to see Alcaeus getting a look in at last… usually he’s overlooked on account of the Lesbian. He’s as talented. When’s this book out in paperback?
February 14, 2012 at 3:21 am |
Yay! At last! Alcaeus in paperback and on kindle. I’ve been waiting for over a year for this.
October 3, 2013 at 9:54 am |
Is this really better than the Loeb edition?