The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles I |
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| Author:
| Sophocles, |
| Translator:
| Grene, David |
| Series title: | Complete Greek Tragedies Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-226-30792-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1991 |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $33.99 |
Book Description:
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"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."--Robert Brustein,
The New Republic "This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."--Kenneth Rexroth,
The Nation "The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."--
Times Education Supplement "These...
More Description"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."--Robert Brustein, The New Republic
"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."--Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation
"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."--Times Education Supplement
"These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead."--Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian
"The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional."--Commonweal
"Grene is one of the great translators."--Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times
"Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet."--Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book Review