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From: Poetry
Date: 20070301
Author:Gibbons, Reginald

I have assembled small groups of Sophoclean fragments to make several poems of a sort by sequencing the fragments within thematic groups; the poems presented here are from that project. I have not added anything to these constructions; I use only Sophocles' lines--his images and metaphors, his ideas and language. Many of the fragments are no more than a line or two long, having survived either by chance in papyrus manuscripts or as quotations in the works of later authors. (Of the more than 120 plays Sophocles wrote, only seven tragedies survive complete.) From the lost plays we ...

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