Poems
eBook - ePub

Poems

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Poems

About this book

The Poetry Book Society Autumn 2018 Recommended Translation.

Asked to name the great Latin love poets, today's reader is likely to offer Catullus, Ovid, Virgil, Horace. Propertius, a successor of the first and influential peer to the others, has not been blessed by posterity. Yet at their best his poems match any of the period. They are poems of love, of desire, of insecurity and obsession: of struggle, too, as they resist the Augustan Empire's attempts to turn its love poets into propagandists. The result is a highly refined irony, a subtlety of tone and humour that is unique. Patrick Worsnip's translations bring out Propertius' playfulness and his psychological acuity, reinstating his poems at the heart of Latin literature's golden age.

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Information

Publisher
Carcanet Classics
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781784106515
eBook ISBN
9781784106522
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Ancient Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction by Peter Heslin
  6. Book One
  7. Book Two
  8. Book Three
  9. Book Four
  10. Notes
  11. Afterword by Patrick Worsnip
  12. About the Author
  13. Copyright

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