Excerpt from Sappho: Trauerspiel in Funf Aufzugen However unsatisfactory his work may be judged, - and no one is more conscious of its defects than the editor himself, -he feels that he needs to make no apology for wishing to offer to the college world an edition of one of the principal plays of Grillparzer. As far as he has been able to learn, no work of the great Austrian dramatist has ever been edited either in this country or in England. This seems very strange! The text is that contained in Volume IV of the fifth Cotta edition of Grillparzer's complete works in twenty volumes, prepared by August Sauer, Stuttgart, 1892, only a few changes being made in accordance with the revised Prussian rules of orthography. All references to the poet's writings are to the same edition. The editor of Sappho has carefully read and tried fully to digest the principal Grillparzer literature, and its influence shows itself in many paragraphs of the Introduction. Wherever he felt that there was any special indebtedness, he has not failed freely to acknowledge it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.