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Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics

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Nobody knows Sappho's real life, but her spirit still exists now through her poems exactly. Mr Carman has proved this. William Bliss Carman is a true poet. His copious imaginative and astonishing construction which based on Sappho's many scattered fragments is a really splendid composition. It is constructed by rhythm, tone, and harmony, just like music. And some poems can be said his own words creation--an extreme example, the Poem Xll, surprisingly 'the first line only' attributes to Sappho's, and the rest fifteen lines are Carman's.
It is out of the question for his Victorian style from the narrow sight. Thou, thy, hark, haply, hadst, etc. which he has used, are doubtless beautiful sound phonetically. The use of inversion makes it also.
This book has a notable introduction by Charles George Douglas Roberts. (author's cousin also a poet who inspired Carman, and was knighted in 1935). We can go back to a hundred years ago at the first published time this Poetry in 1904.

A candid advice; this edition is large 8vo, but its inside layout is very poor. No regard to the page-separation for the verses, particularly annoying verse-line's number. I recommend the Feminine Publishing edition. Here, the both of those problems are none.

About Poem XC: In the edition of L.C.Page and Company MDCCCCllll (1904), the verse begins that, O sad, sad face....., not A sad, sad face..... I think "O" is a correct word.